The records that the Buddha's fifth was in the Hall with the Peaked Roof in the Great Wood at Vesālī. The table itself lists only places; but the later commentaries say elsewhere that the death of King Suddhodana and the going forth of Mahāpajāpatī both took place while the Buddha was staying in the Hall with the Peaked Roof, and on that basis these two events are also placed in this year here.
Different Accounts
Place: the later commentaries have the Hall with the Peaked Roof in the Great Wood at Vesālī; the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing has Pishuli (that is, Vesālī); the Chinese Shi'er you jing records a teaching in the Bamboo Grove in the fifth year, but does not say it was a rains retreat. Taishō Canon
More differences between accounts (1)
The Mahāvaṃsa, the chronicle of the Southern tradition, and other works say that in the fifth year the Buddha stayed at the Jetavana; this does not agree with the table of rains retreats, and is not included in the main text here.
Dating
Year 5 after the Awakening, the Buddha aged thirty-nine, during the rains retreat; the place is given by the later commentaries, and only the year is known.
Related Entries
- Year
- Places
- People
- Discourses
Research Notes: Reliability, Dating and Sources
- How Reliability Is Assessed
Not recorded in the early sutras and Vinayas of any school; found only in the commentaries or later Buddha biographies. Later addition.
- Dating Evidence and Precision
Stated in the canonical text (the text itself gives the time); commentarial dating (the canonical texts give no date; later commentaries record it). Time precision: year only.
Sources
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 AN-a
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 Bv-a，序分
- 大正藏大正藏 T04 no.194 p.144b
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 AN-a，PTS 2.125
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 Bv-a