Talk:Timeline of Buddhism

message: Hi all.  I'm not sure that 'government x attacks buddhist in place y' or 'group of buddhists x protests government y' events really belong on this timeline.  While it's nice to include everything the modern timeline will become bloated with events that are trivial to the overall history of Buddhism if this trend continues. prat (talk) 15:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for Scope Limitation 

message: Until now there is no timeline of Buddhist texts here. Anyone? Wiki-uk (talk) 15:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See for a simple example Timeline of Hindu texts. Wiki-uk (talk) 05:47, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

text: I am not sure how useful this would be, since to my understanding the historical Buddha is reputed to have specifically designed the sangha or an experientially focused, lineage scheme for the transmission of dhamma without resort to texts. The dates of texts are all very early, with the exception of latter accretions in Tibetan/Vajrayana and Mahayana, and commentaries. I could see value in discussing these dates within the context of early Buddhism, but I don't think it holds much water to timeline them, since most of those occuring later are distinct from historical Buddhism. Furthermore, early texts are often discovered in multiple and in different scripts or languages. Treating such texts as a single work then adds significant complexity to an attempted timeline since we can only suppose a text occured "prior to" the possibly available, possibly only roughly known attributed date of its earliest known copy. In short this is a pretty academic area which within the context of Wikipedia is probably hard to cover with adequate sources without falling in to original research. prat (talk) 21:41, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think it would be worthwhile. Sutra/Sutta literature is of course difficult, but as Wiki-uk points out the Timeline of Hindu texts page, you can see that they just put a broad range for many of the earlier texts. Where this will be more useful would be in commentarial or treatise literature, the dates of which are often quite easy to determine (e.g. Nagarjuna, Asanga, Candrakirti) and in the case of East Asia can often be pinned down to a single year. I would welcome an attempt to begin a Timeline of Buddhist Texts. Alexoneill (talk) 17:09, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of Buddhist texts 

message: The date of the First Council listed in this article as three months after the Buddha's death, 483 BCE, contradicts the First Buddhist council article, which says "the year after." This should be clarified with research and citations... which may be a challenge, given the academic debates about dating the Buddha's lifetime. Maybe there is a time span generally agreed upon by scholars? -Dekyi 13:56, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of First Council 

message: To avoid the timeline become too large and bloated -- which will inevitably happen since important events vary in each country, region and school -- it might be better to make different timelines for each country (e.g. Sri Lanka, Tibet), region (e.g. Europe, Southeast Asia) and school (e.g. Theravada, or Sri Lankan Theravada, Gelugpa).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nyanatusita (talk • contribs) 18:35, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creating different time-lines for each Buddhist country and Buddhist school 

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