Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts
Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts The avatar statue is later. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: He did not file 2002 World Heritage. In the causal graph this event weakens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — a worsening welfare path.
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Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts The avatar statue is later. Say so. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: He did not file 2002 World Heritage. States did. Stored so listings are not upgraded to lifetime Facts.
Context
Modern heritage offices. Sharing them as later carriers is required. The setting of Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts is the public file around -0475-12-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts on -0475-12-01. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Gautama Buddha
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.16 · verified
He did not file 2002 World Heritage. States did. Stored so listings are not upgraded to lifetime Facts.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLater UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.1 · Effect from 1 December 475 · verified
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.04 (weight 0.1 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.03 (weight 0.1 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.03 (weight 0.1 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Met Heilbrunn — Buddhism and Buddhist art neighbourhoodMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Buddha, early life neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Buddha at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Met Heilbrunn — Buddhism and Buddhist art neighbourhood at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/budd/hd_budd.htm (opens in a new tab) (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Official carrier: Britannica — Buddha (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Met Heilbrunn — Buddhism and Buddhist art neighbourhood (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/budd/hd_budd.htm (opens in a new tab); Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Established: a sourced public record of Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts under -0475-12-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts under -0475-12-01.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The avatar statue is later. Say so. Mixed effects of Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0475-12-01 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.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorGautama Buddha
- contributed toFactLater UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-not-unesco
https://factrail.ai/facts/bud-not-unesco
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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