Hand-drawn Buddha symbol and buddha chronicle wordmark
Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
About the Sources

Year 26 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 60

In Year 26 after the Awakening the Buddha is sixty. According to the later commentaries, this year's is at ; from this year on, both readings of the Chinese also place the retreat in the country of , agreeing with the commentaries. Again there are no events with an explicit year; most texts of the Sāvatthī years record only the place of the teaching, and in which year it was given cannot be known, so these discourses are all gathered under “Texts of the Sāvatthī Years”.

The Rains Retreat

According to the later commentaries, in his later years the Buddha makes the and the Eastern Park at Sāvatthī his fixed places for the rains retreat, and this year is spent there too; the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing also says the Buddha kept the rains retreat in the country of Sāvatthī for nineteen years, this year counting as the first of them.

Back to The Sāvatthī Years

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。