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Some Important Buddhist dates
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- 563/560 b.c. birth of Siddartha Gautama in Kapilavastu (present day Lumbini), near the Nepali/Indian border, six kilometres within present day Nepal; this is now contested by Indian scholars see link below
- The real birth place of the Buddha (in Orissa of course !)
- 483/480 b.c. parinirvana of Siddartha Gautama Shakyamuni and first council at Rajagrha
- 383 b.c. ??? secound council at Vaisali
- 327-324 b.c. Alexander's Indian expedition
- c. 317 b.c. founding of Mauryan empire by Chandragupta Maurya
- 268-233 b.c. Ashoka Maurya rules from Burma to Iran and from Nepal to South India
- c. 246 b.c. Mahendra in Ceylon
- c. 185 b.c. death of the last Mauryan ruler
- c. 180-55 b.c. Indo-Greeks rulers in the North-West of India (Gandhara, present day Afghanistan and Pakistan)
- 155-130 b.c. rule of the Indo-Greek Menander (Milinda)
- 25-320 A.D. Kushan empire
- 65 A.D. Buddhism in China
- 1st/2nd century A.D.??? : the "Second Buddha" Nagarjuna
- 320-490 A.D. Gupta empire
- 4th century A.D. Buddhism in Korea, Indonesia
- 5th century A.D. Buddhism in Borneo
- 6th century A.D. Buddhism in Japan
- 7th century A.D. Buddhism in Tibet
- 606-647 A.D. Rule of Harsha in India
- 632 A.D. the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo send his minister to India to study Sanskrit and Buddhism
- 740-786 A.D. King Trisong Detsen calls Shantarakshita to Tibet
- 787 A.D. foundation of Samye, first official Buddhist monastery in Tibet, by Padmasambhava (the Nying-ma-pa lineage)
- 9th century A.D. Angkor Wat (Buddhism in Cambodia and South-Est Asia)
- 1029-1042 A.D. Atisha Dipamkara Srijnana in Tibet (the Kadampa lineage)
- 1040-1123 A.D. Milarepa (the Ka-gyu-pa lineage)
- 1280-1368 A.D. Mongol (Yuan) dynasty in China, supremacy of the Sa-kya-pa lineage in Tibet
- 1280-1295 A.D. Kubilai Khan rules over China (Marco Polo travels to China from Venezia)
- 1357-1419 A.D. Lama Je Tsong-kha-pa (Gelug-pa lineage)
- July 6th, 1935 - birth in Amdo province of Tibet of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, XIVth Dalai Lama
- March 10th, 1959 - Tibetan uprising in Lhasa against the Han occupying army
for even more Buddhist dates !!!
Rudy's Buddhist timeline
Wikipedia's Buddhist timeline
Buddhist Videos on line
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