The idea of the Eightfold Path appears in what is regarded as the first sermon of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha GautamaSiddhartha GautamaSamantabhadri (Sanskrit; Devanagari: समन्तभद्री ; IAST: samantabhadrī, Tibetan: ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ, Wylie: kun tu bzang mo) is a dakini and female Buddha from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. She is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra, known amongst some Tibetan Buddhists as the 'Primordial Buddha'.
› wiki › Samantabhadrī_(tutelary)Samantabhadrī (tutelary) - Wikipedia, known as the Buddha, which he delivered after his enlightenment. There he sets forth a middle way, the Eightfold Path, between the extremes of asceticism and sensual indulgence.