The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.27

c5.27

377 Buddhist Council said to have been held at Vaiśālī for the consideration and rejection of ten erroneous doctrines. According to Singhalese tradition this was 118 years before Aśoka’s coronation.—Vinayapiṭakam, ed. Oldenberg, Int. xxix, xxxviii.