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Handbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year

Dated 31 December 479: Handbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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The Sarnath statue on the avatar is later art, not a lifetime likeness. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Later tables disagree. He did not file a register. Honesty is the instrument.

Context

Sri Lankan and Ganges-plain dating traditions compete. Sharing unnamed chronographers is required. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives.

Why it matters

An honest chronology-gap is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Gautama Buddha

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Later tables disagree. He did not file a register. Honesty is the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Buddha, early life neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — BuddhaStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Buddha at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — Buddha at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Buddha (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Buddha (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0480-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGautama Buddha
  2. contributed toFactHandbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Handbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-chronology-disputed

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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