After attaining Enlightenment at Bodhgaya, it was here at Sarnath, where the Lord Buddha preached His First Sermon (Middle Way to Nirvana), sanctified as Maha Dharma Chakra Parivartan. Sarnath ...

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.