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Timeline Buddhism
Looking on the web at timelines of Buddhism I saw not surprisingly that
all seemed to be copied from the same source, adding specific dates. What I did
was copying too and skipping for outsiders uninteresting information. |
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560 – 480 BCE |
Probable life of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha). |
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520 BCE |
Siddhartha Gautama began his wanderings in the countryside in search of truth. |
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530 BCE |
Siddhartha Gautama, meditating under a Bodhi tree at Buddha Gaya in northwestern India, achieved enlightenment. |
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530 BCE |
Four Noble Truths were revealed by Siddhartha Buddha in his first sermon after his enlightenment, becoming the fundamental Buddhist teaching:
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480 BCE |
First Council: Buddha's teachings (Sutta) and a text on monastic discipline (Vinaya) were written down. |
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470 BCE |
Approximately 16 factions existed only ten years after Buddha's death. |
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400 BCE |
Buddhism reached Nepal. |
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260 – 230 BCE |
King Asoka converted to Buddhism; Buddhism from small group to state religion and local religion to world religion as Asoka sends out Buddhist missionaries |
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200 BCE |
Buddhism reaches central Asia |
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100 CE |
Circa 500 sects of Buddhists |
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480 CE |
Bodhidharma goes as a Buddhist missionary to China |
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600 CE |
Buddhism enters Japan |
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1100-1199 CE |
India encounter’s Islam |
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1200-1299 CE |
Decline of Buddhism in northern India |
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1400- 1400 CE |
Decline of Buddhism in southern India |
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1920 CE |
Soviet Communist attack on Buddhism in Mongolia |
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1950 CE |
Beginning of Chinese Communist attack on Buddhism |