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Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
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Year 13 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 47

This year the Buddha is forty-seven (reckoned from an awakening at thirty-five). According to the given in the later commentaries, the Buddha keeps the on , but no source records what happened during the retreat; the year-by-year record of the Chinese Shi'er you jing ends with the previous year. Neither the canonical texts nor the later commentaries place any event explicitly in this year; this year also includes a discourse connected with , whose year is worked out from Rāhula's age and only possibly falls in this year.

The Rains Retreat

The rains retreat is kept on Mount Cāliya; this is the record of the table of rains retreats in the later commentaries. Another commentary on the Vinaya of the has the Pishajialuo grove, and the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing has the .

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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。