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Buddha begun to preach his doctrine across India about 528 B.C., after his first public speech in which he announced it and met again his first five fellows of the years of asceticism, who had abandoned him, as he refused the the ascetic practice.
Just this preaching is traditionally called "Dissemination", because it was the spreading of his doctrine and experience (DHAMMA) to all the people of his Country, like the seeds in a field, waiting the time of the harvest.

He begun to travel across India, moving for an average time of 9 months per year always on foot, leading a very simple life, not ascetic but, surely, not comfortable.
He lived of the charity of people, like his followers who grew in number with the passing time.

He visited little villages and big towns and contacted every kind of person, giving a deep and practical message of hope on how to overcome or better bear the sufferings that are a constant feature of life.

The people around him wanted to follow his example and belonged to all classes and castes of the society and following him they lost their social and economic status, their house, family, partners and money.
They were monks, as a matter of fact and, in the first years, they were all men because Buddha didn't hide a certain misogyny, considering women a constant temptation for men that should have been avoided; but, later, he accepted, we don't know how willingly, a little and controlled group of women in his group, as nuns.
In his diffidence for women, he was surely a son of his time.

All this group of people, turned in monks looking for illumination, was named SHANGA.

He gave explanations to everybody asked him something, although he couldn't convince all people he met.
His dissemination lasted for the remaining 45 years of his life.

He started to travel and preach until his last days, after having predicted his next death few months before to his monks.

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