Talk:The Buddha

Semi-protected edit request on 4 February 2023

Regarding the article on The Buddha under the section: Understanding the historical person under subsection Dating, I noticed in the dates in the paragraph regarding the accepted dates in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia are one year off.

The paragraph reads:

“According to these chronicles Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives the dates of 624 and 544 BCE for the Buddha, which are the accepted dates in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.”

These dates are off by one year and should be: 623 and 543 as the accepted dates in SE Asia. In Thailand, Cambodia, etc., for example the current year is 2566 BE. So by subtracting 2023 AD from 2566 BE, results in a 543 year difference, not a 544 year difference. Thereby putting the historical Buddha’s birth and death at 623 and 543. These are the dates used in SE Asia. So I believe the article listing the dates of 624 and 544 to be typos or incorrect. 2001:FB1:42:950F:59D3:9B54:FF97:F524 (talk) 10:39, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

I looked at the source used for those dates, and all it gives is the Buddha's birthday as circa 563 BC. This source (also used in the Buddha's Birthday article) gives 623 as well, but doesn't exactly state if this is the SE Asia dating or not. This one, citing "The Theravada school using Sri Lankan chronicles" (also citing an actual book) says 564. If anyone finds a better source, please update the article with it! Good catch OP! JungleEntity (talk) 20:49, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

 Not done for now: per JungleEntity. Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 09:49, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 February 2023

The six sense bases only show five senses, they are missing "eye and sight".

change "The six sense bases are ear and sound, nose and odour, tongue and taste, body and touch, and mind and thoughts" to The six sense bases are eye and sight, ear and sound, nose and odour, tongue and taste, body and touch, and mind and thoughts. DavehackerWiki (talk) 12:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Ha! Yes, clearly the sense base that was missing when the text was first added. Done. Thanks. Iskandar323 (talk) 16:29, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2023

typo: change input feom to input from DavehackerWiki (talk) 16:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

 Done Cannolis (talk) 03:10, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

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Lead line

The paragraph should atleast include 'India' as he spent good time doing renuciation(in Bodhgaya) as well as a spiritual teacher. Don't you think so? South Asia doesn't even conclude that he had most in common with India.223.190.135.195 (talk) 18:22, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2023

The word "Parinirvana" in this sentence: "He died in Kushinagar, attaining paranirvana.[d]" is spelled P-A-R-A-N-I-R-V-A-N-A, instead of how it is really spelled: P-A-R-I-N-I-R-V-A-N-A. DiefferGhossss (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 19:51, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

buddha

It is stated in the intro that Buddha "founded Buddhism". This is not strictly true as Buddhism was created and proliferated by later followers. Chridman (talk) 14:15, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

@Chridman: It is what the reliable sources say, and therefore, so do we. Mathglot (talk) 20:35, 22 March 2023 (UTC)