The History of Buddhist Thought c9.s2.25

c9.s2.25

¹ An examination of the Pāli evidence compared with that of the Jains and the Purāṇas is given by W. Geiger in the introduction to his translation of the Mahāvamsa. Mr. Bhattasali, preferring the Jain dates, wishes to shift all the dates five years forward. How precarious the whole scheme is can be seen from the fact that Dr. Matsumoto, following Professor Ui, shifts the death of Buddha to 386 B.C., nearly a century later. See Die Prajñāpāramitā-Literatur, p. 25. Stuttgart, 1932. None of these dates agrees with the traditional dates accepted by the Buddhists themselves. In Ceylon, Siam, and Burma 544 B.C. is the date of Buddha’s death; in China 1067 B.C. and other dates are given. Mr. Bhattasali’s calculation is given in JRAS. 1932, p. 273.