Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path Seven weeks after the Buddha reached enlightenment, at a place called Sarnath, in India, he gave his first teaching. This is referred to as setting the wheel of Dharma in motion. Here he first spoke of the Four Noble Truths. # To l...
To live is to act, and our actions can have either harmful or beneficial consequences for oneself and others. Thus is born the basic principle of Buddhism. Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world and has been for more than two and a half millennia. Although it does not always appear to...