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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha

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Received founder of the Buddhist path (chronology disputed). Documented harms: caste-silence, extra rules for nuns, royal patronage, later relic-politics. Offsets: going-forth, first sermon, sangha, middle way. Sarnath statue is later art, not a lifetime likeness. No exact civil dates.

Mendicant teaching as received oral pathsangha as alms communitymiddle way as public rejection of luxury and mortification

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The record is not a verified civil vita and not a unique author of Ashoka's edicts. The heaviest documented costs in the public English file are chronology-as-register, extra precepts for nuns as received, caste-silence as statute, royal patronage, and later relic politics. The offsets are a received going-forth, a first sermon, a sangha, and a middle-way teaching. Confidence is medium on narrative cores, low on exact years and on Devadatta as crime-file.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

Claims against the record, the type of responsibility, and what is disputed.

Claimed

What happened

Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 6 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (0250–0500).

Causal path

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  1. PersonGautama Buddha
  2. FactLater canons place a Sakya household at Kapilavatthu as the received family setting, not a verified palace photograph
  3. DriverIncome Inequality
  1. PersonGautama Buddha
  2. FactThe going-forth from household to homeless life is received as the dated turning, not a verified midnight tape
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonGautama Buddha
  2. FactHandbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 January 500 · Income Inequality

    Later canons place a Sakya household at Kapilavatthu as the received family setting, not a verified palace photograph

  2. 1 June 480 · Digital Learning Access

    The going-forth from household to homeless life is received as the dated turning, not a verified midnight tape

  3. 31 December 479 · Digital Learning Access

    Handbook dates for the Buddha's life remain disputed by centuries; this catalog stores that dispute and does not manufacture an exact civil year

  4. 1 January 478 · Health system capacity stress

    Received accounts have a period of extreme austerity later rejected as a wrong path, a health-risk heading inside the vita

  5. 1 January 476 · Protection of Minority Rights

    Rahula is the received son who goes forth; household-leaving includes a child-file this catalog does not romanticise as unique harm or unique good

  6. 1 December 475 · Digital Learning Access

    Later UNESCO listings of Bodh Gaya and Sarnath are not the Buddha's lifetime acts

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

31 of 31 linked facts verified, drawing on 3 distinct sources (0250–0500).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Access to Insight.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — Buddha, early life neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — BuddhaStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  3. 3.Access to Insight — Kalama Sutta neighbourhoodAccess to Insight

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

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Expert analysis

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The offices he actually held

The Buddha is a received mendicant teacher, not a verified civil registrant. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Buddha-founder-of-Buddhism (opens in a new tab), SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/ (opens in a new tab), IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/buddha/ (opens in a new tab), SuttaCentral at https://suttacentral.net/ (opens in a new tab), and Access to Insight at https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ (opens in a new tab) are independent public files. The Met's Buddhist-art timeline at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/budd/hd_budd.htm (opens in a new tab) is later art history, not a likeness.

The first fact is a chronology dispute. The second is a received going-forth. The third is a sangha that lives on alms.

What went wrong

Austerity as received. Extra rules for nuns as received. Caste not abolished as law. Royal patronage. Later relic-politics and Ashokan edicts that are not his hand. A Sarnath statue is not a face.

What improved

Going-forth, first sermon, four truths, dependent origination, sangha, middle way, rains retreat, compassion-and-non-harm as received ethics.

Related people: Ananda, Mahapajapati, Devadatta, Bimbisara, Rahula, Ashoka as later user, Mahavira as neighbouring shramana heading, Confucius as a distant comparison only if not used — here Laozi/Confucius are not stored as meetings.

No exact civil dates. Later art is later art. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named.

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