Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored
Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored Do not rebate caste-silence. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.
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Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored Do not rebate caste-silence. Two paths. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Received ethics. Not a unique ICRC statute.
Context
Later suttas. Sharing unnamed reciters is required. The setting of Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored is the public file around -0467-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Improving path from Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored on -0467-01-01. A public non-harm teaching is a humanitarian path of medium confidence on wording. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Shared responsibility is part of Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0467-01-01 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.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Gautama Buddha
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.44 · verified
Received ethics. Not a unique ICRC statute.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactCompassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 467 · verified
A public non-harm teaching is a humanitarian path of medium confidence on wording.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Buddha, early life neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 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).
Established: a sourced public record of Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored under -0467-01-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored under -0467-01-01.
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.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two paths. Mixed effects of Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorGautama Buddha
- contributed toFactCompassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Compassion and non-harm are received as public ethical headings, limited by caste-silence and royal patronage already stored. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-compassion-teaching
https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-compassion-teaching
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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