Hand-drawn Buddha symbol and buddha chronicle wordmark
Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
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Year 1 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 35

This year runs from the Buddha's awakening beneath the Bodhi tree to the end of the first . The Buddha is thirty-five (all ages are reckoned from an awakening at thirty-five). In the first half of the year the Buddha sits in meditation beneath trees around and, after entreats him, decides to teach. In the second half he gives his first sermon in the Deer Park outside ; the first appear, followed by the first male and female .

The Rains Retreat

The rains retreat is kept at , at Bārāṇasī. The place is named explicitly only in later commentaries; the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing (Collection of Saṅgharakṣa) also records it as the “place where the Wheel of Dhamma was turned” in the country of Bārāṇasī, that is, the place of the Buddha's first sermon.

Attested across multiple schools

The Buddha awakens beneath the Bodhi tree

Attested across multiple schools

The first week after the Awakening, seated beneath the tree

Recorded by one school

A brahmin asks what makes a brahmin

Attested across multiple schools

A group of discourses given beneath the banyan tree soon after the Awakening

Attested across multiple schools

The nāga king Mucalinda shelters the Buddha with his body

Attested across multiple schools

Two merchants offer the Buddha his first meal after the Awakening

Recorded by two schools

A spirit offers a medicinal fruit, and the Buddha converts villagers on his alms round

Attested across multiple schools

Brahmā entreats the Buddha, who decides to teach

Attested across multiple schools

The Buddha chooses the five ascetics as the first to hear the Dhamma

Attested across multiple schools

On the road to Bārāṇasī the Buddha meets Upaka

Attested across multiple schools

Turning the Wheel of Dhamma: the Buddha's first sermon

Attested across multiple schools

The other four ascetics attain realization and go forth in turn

Attested across multiple schools

The Buddha teaches the Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self, and the five attain arahantship

Attested across multiple schools

Yasa goes forth, and his father takes full refuge

Attested across multiple schools

Yasa's mother and former wife become female lay disciples

Attested across multiple schools

Yasa's four friends go forth

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Yasa's fifty friends go forth

Recorded by two schools

Other conversions during the stay at the Deer Park

Attested across multiple schools

The Buddha sends out sixty disciples to teach

Attested across multiple schools

The Buddha allows his disciples to ordain people in their own regions

Recorded by one school

The Buddha keeps the first rains retreat at the Deer Park

Back to Beginning to Teach

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。