4th International Conference of Young Buddhist Scholars, Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG BUDDHIST SCHOLARS THEME: THE BUDDHA’S MIDDLE PATH FOR TODAY’S GENERATION Following His Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Buddha delivered His first discourse, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma), at Sarnath, to the five ascetics. The Middle Path (Majjhimāpaṭipadā) fundamentally represents the Buddha's radical rejection of dualistic thinking that characterises much of human cognition and philosophical discourse. At the
