# Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file

Date: 460

## The fact

Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file Do not upgrade legend to a unique assassination series. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Later canons name a cousin-schismatic. Low confidence as dated crime. Stored as received polarisation.

## Context

Later vinaya. Sharing unnamed monks is required. The setting of Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file is the public file around -0460-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Britannica — Devadatta (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file on -0460-01-01. A received schism story is a polarisation path of low confidence. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not upgrade legend to a unique assassination series. Mixed effects of Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file under -0460-01-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file under -0460-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Devadatta's schism and harm-plots are received vinaya narrative, not a verified police file. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0460-01-01 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.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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

## People

- Gautama Buddha: https://factrail.ai/people/gautama-buddha

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-devadatta