Deer Park at Isipatana (modern Sarnath) near Benares. From that
day, for 45 years, he taught all classes of men and women—kings
and peasants, Brahmins and outcasts, bankers and beggars, holy
men and robbers—without making the slightest distinction
between them. He recognized no differences of caste or social
groupings, and the W a y he preached was open to all men and
women w h o were ready to understand and to follow it.
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At the age of 80, the Buddha passed away at Kusinara (in
modern Uttar Pradesh in India).
Today Buddhism is found in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand,
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, China, Japan, Mongolia,
Korea, Formosa, in some parts of India, Pakistan and Nepal, and
also in the Soviet Union. T h e Buddhist population of the world
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