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The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording

The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording Do not treat a 1990s website as 450 BCE autograph. 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 Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording Do not treat a 1990s website as 450 BCE autograph. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Later sutta. Medium confidence on unique wording. Not a unique press-freedom statute.

Context

Later nikaya. Sharing unnamed Kalamas as literary audience is required. The setting of The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording is the public file around -0450-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-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 The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording on -0450-01-01. A public anti-hearsay teaching is an education path of medium confidence. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0450-01-01 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

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    Later sutta. Medium confidence on unique wording. Not a unique press-freedom statute.

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.Access to Insight — Kalama Sutta neighbourhoodAccess to Insight · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — BuddhaStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Access to Insight — Kalama Sutta neighbourhood at https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ (opens in a new tab) (Access to Insight). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Buddha at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Access to Insight — Kalama Sutta neighbourhood (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ (opens in a new tab); Access to Insight). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Buddha (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: a sourced public record of The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording under -0450-01-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording under -0450-01-01.

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. Mixed effects of The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording are separate paths.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorGautama Buddha
  2. contributed toFactThe Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Kalama teaching against mere authority is received in later suttas as a public epistemic heading of medium confidence on autograph wording. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-kalama-later

https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-kalama-later

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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