Earliest Buddhist texts come 454 years after the Buddha
Compared to Xnity, the gap between the events and the earliest written accounts for Buddhism is even worse:
...The Tipitaka that was transmitted to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Asoka were initially preserved orally and were later written down during the Fourth Buddhist Council in 29 BCE, approximately 454 years after the death of Gautama Buddha....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pāli_Canon
Pre-sectarian Buddhism,[1] also called early Buddhism,[2][3] the earliest Buddhism,[4][5] and original Buddhism,[6] is Buddhism as theorized to have existed before the various subsects of Buddhism came into being.[web 1]
The contents and teachings of this pre-sectarian Buddhism must be deduced or re-constructed from the earliest Buddhist texts, which by themselves are already sectarian....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-sectarian_Buddhism
--Mark
Racine, WI, US(A)
...The Tipitaka that was transmitted to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Asoka were initially preserved orally and were later written down during the Fourth Buddhist Council in 29 BCE, approximately 454 years after the death of Gautama Buddha....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pāli_Canon
Pre-sectarian Buddhism,[1] also called early Buddhism,[2][3] the earliest Buddhism,[4][5] and original Buddhism,[6] is Buddhism as theorized to have existed before the various subsects of Buddhism came into being.[web 1]
The contents and teachings of this pre-sectarian Buddhism must be deduced or re-constructed from the earliest Buddhist texts, which by themselves are already sectarian....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-sectarian_Buddhism
--Mark
Racine, WI, US(A)
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