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This book envisions the student of Dhamma as being an “heir” to the Buddha’s Teaching who has the responsibility to study them to the point where they understand them sufficiently deeply to instil these teachings in future generations of students — in the same way Konḍañña did this for us in his day and age — and the approach of the book is to facilitate the reader’s mastery of the scriptural material laid before us to a point of mastery both in theory and practice. Lastly, the present author would like to express gratitude to the ancient commentarians who authored the Sārathasamuccaya without whom this literary legacy would never have come down to our present time. Also, the present author would like to recognize with gratitude the virtue of H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand who was responsible for the reprinting of the translation of the Sārathasamuccaya at the aforementioned funeral and without which the present author would never have had access to the original of the translation brought to you, the reader, in the present day, as The Buddha’s First Teaching. Prabhavanaviravakhun (Phra Phadet Dattajeewo) Vice-Abbot: Wat Phra Dhammakaya Pathumthani Province, Thailand 19 August 1994