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

Date: 450

## The fact

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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Access to Insight — Kalama Sutta neighbourhood (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/; Access to Insight).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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. Do not treat a 1990s website as 450 BCE autograph. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.accesstoinsight.org/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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