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The Bamboo Grove monastery

Veḷuvana Kalandakanivāpa

The Bamboo Grove at Rajgir

Modern Location References

Approximate reference

Uses the location of the modern Bamboo Grove park as a reference; the park's location does not mean the monastery buildings of the Buddha's time have been fully reconstructed.

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Region
Magadha (the Rājagaha area)

Related Events (20)

Year 2 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 36

King Bimbisāra donates the Bamboo Grove

Year 2 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 36

Sāriputta and Moggallāna go forth

Year 2 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 36

The Buddha keeps the second rains retreat in the Bamboo Grove at Rājagaha

Year 3 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 37

The Buddha keeps the third rains retreat at Rājagaha

Year 4 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 38

The Buddha keeps the fourth rains retreat at Rājagaha

Year 4 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 38

Full ordination changed to a formal act of the Sangha

Year 5 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 39

The “fifth year” as recorded in the Shi'er you jing

Year 5 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 39

The Sangha without offence for five years after the Awakening (Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya)

Year 6 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 40

Anāthapiṇḍika takes refuge and builds the Jetavana monastery

Year 10 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 44

Anuruddha and two companions live in harmony

Year 11 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 45

The Buddha answers the ploughing brahmin: “Faith is the seed”

Year 12 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 46

The brahmin of Verañjā reproaches the Buddha, and later takes refuge

Year 12 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 46

Sudinna of Kalanda village goes forth

Year 20 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 54

Sudinna returns home and has intercourse with his former wife

Year 38 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 72

Devadatta demands to take over the Sangha, and the Buddha refuses

Year 38 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 72

Devadatta makes five demands and splits the Sangha

Year 38 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 72

Sāriputta and Moggallāna bring back the five hundred monks

Events of uncertain year

King Suddhodana sends envoys, and Kāḷudāyī urges the Buddha to return home

Events known only to fall within a span of years

Permission to accept robes offered by lay people

Events known only to fall within a span of years

The Buddha first lays down the rains retreat

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Source text

日期怎麼讀

成道第幾年
從佛陀成道開始,每經過一次雨季安居算一年,每一年算到安居結束為止;所有年歲一律依二十九歲出家、三十五歲成道推算。
年份依據
區分經文自己明記、後世註解書記載、先後順序推定及年歲換算。
時間精確度
分別說明確定到日、月、年,或只能放入某幾年之間。
可信度
多派共傳、兩派記載、單派記載與後世補述,表達記載的共傳範圍;與時間及位置是否確定分開閱讀。