Thus to these five, his first students, the Buddha began his work of teaching the dharma, the path that leads to the end of sorrow. The place was the Deer Park near the holy city of Varanasi on the Ganges, and the event is revered as the moment when the Compassionate One “set in motion the wheel of the dharma,” which will never cease revolving so long as there are men and women who follow his path.
