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Based on the sutras, the Vinaya and later commentaries
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Year 7 after the Awakening

The Buddha at 41

This year the Buddha is forty-one. According to the later commentaries, the Buddha performs the “Twin Miracle” (a supernormal display in which fire and water issue alternately from his body at the same time) beneath a mango tree outside the city gate of , defeats the , and then ascends to the Heaven of the Thirty-three (one of the heavens where the gods dwell) to keep the , teaching his mother and the gods. At the end of the retreat the Buddha descends from the Heaven of the Thirty-three to the city of , where humans and gods gather in a great assembly.

The Rains Retreat

According to the later commentaries, the seventh rains retreat is kept in the Heaven of the Thirty-three, and the Chinese Sengqieluocha suoji jing likewise says “for his mother's sake, in the seventh year, in the Heaven of the Thirty-three”; the Chinese Shi'er you jing records the seventh year in the country of Juyeni.

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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。