Geography of Early Buddhism c7.18

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In the Buddhist world, Kapilavatthu, Bārāṇasi and Kusinārā were the four places of pilgrimage (Dīgha, Vol. II, Mahāparinibbāna Suttanta). It was at Benares that the Buddha gave his first discourse on the Dhammacakka or the wheel of Law (MN., Vol. I, pp. 170 ff.; Cf. SN., V, pp. 420 ff.; KV., pp. 97, 559).