The Places Visited by Lord Buddha in his Lifetime : Buddha and his Dhamma

The Places Buddha Visited

• Besides the main and minor centres the Blessed Lord visited many other places during the course of his missionary tour. 
• He visited Ukkatha, Nadika, Sal, Assapura, Ghoshitaram, Nalanda, Appana, Etuma.
• He visited Opasad, lccha-naukal, Chandal Kuppa, Kushinara.
• He visited Devadaha, Pava, Ambasanda, Setavya, Anupiya and Ugunma. 
• The names of the places he visited show that he travelled over the Sakya Desa, the Kuru Desa and Anga Desa. 
• Roughly speaking, he travelled over the whole of Northern India. 
• These appear to be a few places. But what distance do they cover ? Rajagraha from Lumbini is not less than 250 miles. This just gives an idea of distances. 
• These distances the Lord walked on foot. He did not even use a bullock-cart. 
• In his wanderings he had no place to stay until later on when his lay disciples built Viharas and resting places which he and his Bhikkhus used as halts on their journeys. Most often he lived under the shade of wayside trees. 
• He went from place to place, sometimes from village to village, resolving the doubts and difficulties of those who were willing to accept his message, controverting the arguments of those who were his opponents and preaching his gospel to those who like children came to him for guidance. 
• The Blessed Lord knew that all those who came to listen to him were not all of them intelligent, not all of them came with an open and a free mind. 
• He had even warned the brethren that there were three sorts of listeners.
• The empty-head, the fool who cannot see,— though oft and oft, unto the brethren going, he hears their talk, beginning, middle, end,—but can never grasp it. Wisdom is not his. 
• Better than he the man of scattered brains, who oft and oft, unto the brethren going, hears all their talk, beginning, middle, end, and seated there can grasp the very words, yet, rising, nought retains. Blank is his mind. 
• Better than these the man of wisdom wide. He, oft and oft unto the brethren going, hears all their talk, beginning, middle, end, and seated there, can grasp the very words, bears all in mind, steadfast, unwavering, skilled in the Norm and what conforms thereto. 
• Notwithstanding this, the Lord was never tired of going from place to place preaching his gospel.
• As a bhikkhu the Lord never had more than three pieces of clothes. He lived on one meal a day and he begged his food from door to door every morning. 
• His mission was the hardest task assigned to any human being. He discharged it so cheerfully.