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Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
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Year 35 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 69

Year 35 after the Awakening, the Buddha sixty-nine. This year's is at ; whether he stayed at the Jeta Grove (the monastery donated by the wealthy merchant ) or at the Eastern Park (Migāramātā's Mansion, built by the lady Visākhā) is not recorded year by year. The canonical texts do not state what happened this year, and the discourses of the Sāvatthī years can only be assigned as a block to Years 21 to 44 after the Awakening; see “Texts of the Sāvatthī years”.

The Rains Retreat

According to the later commentaries, in his later years the Buddha kept the rains retreat at Sāvatthī, staying at the Jeta Grove or at Migāramātā's Mansion in the Eastern Park, with no year-by-year record of which; the Chinese also says that from Year 26 to Year 44 he spent nineteen consecutive years in the country of .

Back to The Sāvatthī Years

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。