Category:Chokhor chörten

English: Stupa of Turning the Wheel of Dharma (also known as Stupa of many doors)

This stupa is also called The Stupa of Many Doors (gomang chöten སྒོ་མང་མཆོད་རྟེན།) because its steps are ornamented with doors that symbolize the opening of the doors of the Dharma.

Seven weeks after his enlightenment, the Buddha went to Sarnath and rejoined his five first ascetic companions in the garden known as Deer Park. He began to turn the wheel of the Dharma by explaining the four truths of the noble ones—the truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of cessation, and the truth of the path that leads to this cessation—to them.