Dhammachakra Pravartan Day
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27th Oct, 2020
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- Dhammachakra Pravartan Day (DhammaChakra Anupravartan Din) is a day to celebrate the Buddhist conversion of B. R. Ambedkar and approximately 600,000 followers in October 1956 at Deekshabhoomi on the occasion of Vijayadashami.
- It is primarily celebrated at Deeksha Bhoomi every year.
- Deekshabhoomi is a sacred monument of Navayana Buddhism located at Nagpur city in Maharashtra where B. R. Ambedkar embraced Buddhism.
- In buddhism, the Buddha’s first sermon is called Dharma Chakra Pravartana or the “Turning of the wheel of law”.
- Budhha’s first sermon was delivered in a deer forest at Sarnath, north of Bodhgaya, where he had experienced enlightenment some weeks prior.
