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vinhbinhpro SARNATH Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1 UTTAR PRADESH Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2 SARNATH Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3 SARNATH Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4 The deer park where the Buddha preached his first sermon is now called Sarnath. It lay forgotten ... until a British amateur archaeologist excavated the site in the nineteenth century. He found stupas and a pillar originally erected by emperor Ashoka in the third century BC. The biggest stupa, called Dhamekh, was on the site where the Buddha supposedly gave his first sermon, sitting with the Brahmins from Kapilavastu. Later archaeologists discovered the shrine where the Buddha apparently had sheltered from the rains; they also found monasteries, which seemed to have been destroyed by a great fire. A temple built by the Sri Lankan Buddhist Anagarika Dharmapala now stands in place of the shrine. The ruins of the monasteries lie amid vast green lawns. The grounds also include a deer park and a zoo. (www.shunya.net) Tuesday, July 21, 2015 5 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 6 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 13 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 14 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 15 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 16 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 17 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 18 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 19 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 20 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 21 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 22 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 23 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 24 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 25 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 26 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 27 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 28 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 29 Tuesday, July 21, 2015 30 SARNATH Tuesday, July 21, 2015 31