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Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
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Year 20 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 54

This year the Buddha is fifty-four (reckoned from an awakening at thirty-five); it is the last of the first twenty years after the Awakening. The Buddha keeps the at ; according to the later commentaries of the , , who had been gone forth for eight years, returns to his home village this year and has intercourse with his former wife, and the Buddha therefore lays down the first . After this retreat the Buddha makes his fixed place for the rains retreat.

The Rains Retreat

The rains retreat is kept at Rājagaha; both the in the later commentaries and the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing (which has Luoyue city, that is, Rājagaha) record it so. The year-by-year table of the later commentaries ends with this year; from then on the Buddha resides permanently at Sāvatthī.

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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。