On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c9.s5.95
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c9.s5.95
- Language
- English
v1.c9.s5.95
The reader of this passage about Pāṇini will observe that the pilgrim gives the date of king Kanishka as 500 years after Buddha's decease. This is not in accordance with the common Chinese chronology of Buddhism which makes the death of the Buddha to have taken place in the ninth century B. C.