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Year 15 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 49

This year the Buddha is forty-nine (reckoned from an awakening at thirty-five). According to the given in the later commentaries and the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing, the Buddha returns this year to his home town of for the , but neither records what happened during the retreat. Neither the canonical texts nor the later commentaries place any event explicitly in this year; this year also lists a group of discourses and rules that state explicitly that the Buddha was keeping the rains retreat at Kapilavatthu but give no year, as events that may belong to this year.

The Rains Retreat

The rains retreat is kept at Kapilavatthu; the table of rains retreats in the later commentaries has the great city of Kapilavatthu, and the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing has the Sakyan village in the country of Kapilavatthu, meaning the same place. Another later commentary of the says the Buddha kept the rains retreat in the Banyan Park at Kapilavatthu only once, but does not say which year.

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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。