The Great Discourse on the Wheel of Dhamma

homage:

"We, the disciples of the Blessed One, bow with clasped hands to pay our homage and adoration with a deep sense of reverences to the Buddha together with the group of five Bhikkhu Arahats who having eradicated the kilesas had become fully Accomplished Ones, two thousand five hundred and fifty one years ago on the fifth waning day of Wa4so, in the deer sanctuary, near Varanasi."

THE GREAT CONCLUDING PRAYER

May you all good people in this audience, by virtue of having given respectful attention to this great discourse on the Tuming of the Wheel of Dhamma otherwise the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta which has been delivered with full elaborations in eight parts on eight -occasions, from the newmoon day of Tawthalfn to the fullmoon day of Hnaung Tagu of 1324, B.E., be able to avoid dthe extremely relaxed path of indulgence in sensuous pleasures as well as the extremely austere path of self—mortificationy and by developing the Middle Path otherwise called the Noble Eightfold Path, become accomplished in parinndpativeda, parinnadbhisamaya, fully and rightly comprehending the truth of suffering; in Pah@napativeda, Pahanabhisamaya, abandoning of the truth of origin of suffering; in Sacchikiriyapativeda, Sacchikiriyabhi-samaya, realization of the truth of cessation of suffermg and in BhGvandpativeda, bhavandbhisamaya, developing the magga saccd in one's person, and attain very soon the Nibbana, the end of all sufferings.

Sadhu ! Sadhu! Sadhu!

End of Part Eight of the Discourse on the

\dhammacakka Sutta.

This is the End of the Great Discourse on the

Dhammacakka Sutta.