# Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day

Date: 400

## The fact

Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day Do not manufacture an exact day. Relic-stupas are later. Gautama Buddha's documented role is: Received death-narrative. Later relic cults are not this event.

## Context

Malla country as received. Sharing unnamed attendants is required. The setting of Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day is the public file around -0400-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Buddha, death 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 — Buddha, death (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 — Buddha, death (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day on -0400-06-01. A received death is a humanitarian-limit path of medium confidence on year. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day. Naming Gautama Buddha does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0400-06-01 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 Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day under -0400-06-01 for Gautama Buddha. Established: a sourced public record of Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day under -0400-06-01.

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 manufacture an exact day. Relic-stupas are later. Mixed effects of Parinirvana at Kusinara is received; competing year-systems remain; this catalog does not pick a unique ISO death-day are separate paths.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## 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-parinirvana