Talk:Buddhist calendar

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message: Thank you all for the good information ! it was  not mentioned in the article that how many years "buddhist countries" have used  "huddhist calendar". For example, does any one know did Thailand mark years in B.E. or A.D. at Ayuthaya times ?
Somebody told me they have only used B.E. for 60 years or so !! ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.207.104 (talk • contribs) 05:24, 31 August 2007
:The last paragraph in the article, beginning "Four eras ...", answers most of your questions. All four eras mentioned, Anchansakarat, Buddhasakarat, Mahasakarat, and Chulasakarat, can be called Buddhist eras because they were all used with the Buddhist calendar. A solar Buddhist era beginning 1 January has only been used in Thailand since 1940. But its original lunisolar form (Buddhasakarat) beginning after our modern April, using the Sanskrit month names given in the article, was used before 1940 (maybe from 1767?). That paragraph states that the Chulasakarat era was adopted in Thailand in the mid-13th century, whereas the Ayutthaya Kingdom began in the mid-14th century, so the Chulasakarat era was used by the Ayutthaya Kingdom during most of its existence. — Joe Kress 21:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  In Thailand there have been official four eras, but I never heard Anahansakarat before; I might be wrong. There have been Mahasakarat → Chulasakarat → Rattanakosin era (known as Rattanakosinsok) → Buddhasakarat --Manop - TH (talk) 05:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Does it start near the winter solstice, or the spring equinox (as some other calendars do)?  Or does that vary by country?  Since it seems that will also vary thru time as the equinoxes process, is there any discussion in any country of amending the rules to adjust back to the tropical year?
Some specific examples, comparing dates in specific countries with the gregorian dates, would help a lot.
Also it would be helpful to know who uses the calendars - are they mostly for religious events, or for business, or for birthdays, or what? Thanks!  --NealMcB (talk) 16:35, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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message: I've just updated the article. We still need to address, among other things:
* Khmer, Lao and Sinhala names of the Buddhist calendar in lede
* Khmer and Lao month names
* Does the Sinhala calendar use a version of the Metonic cycle like the SEA ones or does it use apparent reckoning like Hindu calendars?
* What is the Sinhala calendar's intercalation method? The previous edit says it is 354, 384, 385 like the Burmese calendar but I can't find any sources to verify that.
* Has the Sinhala calendar ever had the 12-year animal cycle like the SEA ones?
* Why does the Thai Buddhist Era use a 543 offset when its epochal date is 545 BCE?
* New year's day: Is it fixed to the Gregorian calendar in Cambodia and Laos like in Thailand? How about in Sri Lanka?
Hybernator (talk) 02:03, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
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message: As this article is only about *one* particular Buddhist calendar, and the are hundreds of millions using other Buddhist calendars, I propose that it be moved to Theravāda Buddhist calendar. Sylvain1972 (talk) 15:03, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: The New Year section needs to be updated, annually,
perhaps even showing the previous and next New Years, as well. Skaizun (talk) 03:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
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message: Would someone closer to the subject please add (or create a new article) that explains the ancestry of these calendars, since we seem to get fairly regular interventions (from Sri Lanka?) objecting to any suggestion of a Hindu origin.
As far as I can tell just from reading the articles, we have:
* Surya Siddhanta, the original Hindu calendar
* Burmese calendar is listed in this article as an antecedent of the Buddhist calendar. That article says "The Burmese chronicles trace the origin of the Burmese calendar to ancient India with the introduction of the Kali Yuga Era in 3102 BCE." and the Kali Yuga article says "According to the Surya Siddhanta, Kali Yuga began at midnight (00:00) on 18 February 3102 BCE",  which might seem to suggest that the Burmese Calendar and the Surya Siddhanta evolved in parallel, not one from the other?
** Chula Sakarat (alias Jolak Sakaraj), the article for which says that it is descended from (this?) Buddhist calendar 
* Busyakul (2004: 476), cited in this article says (in the English abstract) "... the luni-solar calendar, based on Suriyayatra text ..." From that link we reach Thai lunar calendar which says that it is "based on the SuriyaYatra with likely influence from the traditional Hindu Surya Siddhanta" but gives no information about this SuriyaYatra.  (I have asked at the talk page for clarification).
So it is a bit of a mess and an invitation to nationalistic disruption. Can anyone pull it together? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:55, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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