🇮🇳 Where were the three places where Buddha preached the Dharma?

The advantage of traveling to India with a tour group is that the food and accommodation are great; I still miss the taste of Indian curry and naan. In terms of transportation, you can take a tour group bus, so you don’t have to worry about bumpy gravel roads on long journeys; it is especially safe for girls to travel in and out with the group. Experience in person the city that the Buddha once walked through as described in the Buddhist scriptures, and you will have deeper feelings and insights when you are there! The places where the Buddha preached the Dharma three times were Deer Park, Vulture Peak, and Vaishali. <> As soon as we arrived at Sarnath, we saw many people circumambulating the pagoda, chanting mantras, and buying flowers as offerings. Although only cultural relics are left, the pilgrims are still very pious. After the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, he first came to Deer Park to convert five monks and preached to them the thirty-seven factors of enlightenment, including the Agama Sutra. His teachings are now generally classified as self-salvation Hinayana Buddhism (Shravakayana). <> Climbing Mount Vulture Peak requires a bit of physical strength. Older people can take a sedan chair up the mountain. On the mountain, you can also capture the touching moment of the lamas chanting sutras together! There are several caves on the mountain. According to legend, these are the caves where the ten great disciples of Buddha and some Arhats practiced seclusion. Now many tourists will stick gold foil on the stones or light lamps in the caves for offerings. Several years after the Buddha preached the Dharma, he gave the second turning of the Dharma wheel on Vulture's Peak outside Rajgir, expounding the wisdom of emptiness such as the "Prajna Sutra". His teachings are classified as Mahayana Buddhism (Bodhisattva Vehicle) of self-salvation and salvation of others. <> Compared with the previous two pilgrimage sites, the ruins of Vaishali are relatively well preserved, and pilgrims will look for open spaces nearby to meditate. The Buddha taught according to the individual’s aptitude, knowing that each person’s capacity for enlightenment was different, so he developed 84,000 methods suitable for people with different aptitudes. However, all things are inseparable from their essence. The Buddha's final teaching of "Madhyamaka-Vijnanavada" emphasizes the middle way view and equality view that everyone has Buddha nature and everyone can become a Buddha. Some people classify it as part of the Mahayana (Vajrayana) method; but in fact, the Lotus Sutra states very clearly that "there are no three vehicles, only one Buddha vehicle." #Deer Park #Ragir #Lingjiu Mountain #Vaisali City