Traditional dates of Buddha?

[dean_anderson at SACARI.ORG]

Thanks to the person who pointed me to the writings of S. Vidyasankar who
claims that the records of the Sankaracarya Maths were most likely forged --
and relatively recently at that.

Can someone tell me where I can find his articles or discussion about them?

Dean Anderson

----- Original Message -----
From: <dean_anderson at SACARI.ORG>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Traditional dates of Buddha?


> Thanks for the replies in group and private.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Wyzlic" <pwyzlic at UNI-BONN.DE>
> To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Traditional dates of Buddha?
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 dean_anderson at SACARI.ORG wrote:
>
> > I recently ran across mention that (some) Buddhists hold the Buddha's
date
> > to be around 1700 B.C. Perhaps this is a Tibetan tradition?
> >
> > Another source said that some hold it to be 1000 B.C. I believe this may
> be
> > a date from some in the Sankaracarya tradition who would then put
Sankara
> at
> > around 5-600 B.C.
> >
> > These dates are obviously much earlier than those commonly accepted
among
> > scholars -- even given the range of differing opinions among them.
> >
> > Are these dates accepted by a large number of followers in Buddhism and
> > Vedanta?
> >
> > What are their reasons for choosing these dates?
>
> Concerning the dating of Buddha Sakyamuni, see the congress volumes ed. by
> H. Bechert. There you will find lots of possible and impossible dates and
> where they may come from.
>
> See: The dating of the historical Buddha = Die Datierung des
> historischen Buddha / ed. by Heinz Bechert. - Gttingen : Vandenhoeck &
> Ruprecht 1991-1997 (Symposien zur Buddhismusforschung ; 4) (Abhandlungen
der
> Akademie der Wissenschaften in G ttingen : philologisch-historische
> Klasse ; ...)
>
> 1 / ed. by Heinz Bechert. - 1991. - XV, 525 S. -  (Symposien zur
> Buddhismusforschung ; 4,1) (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften
> in Gttingen : philologisch-historische Klasse ; Folge 3, 189)
> ISBN 3-525-82476-9
>
> 2 / ed. by Heinz Bechert. - 1992. - X, 530 S. -  (Symposien zur
> Buddhismusforschung ; 4,2) (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften
> in G ttingen : philologisch-historische Klasse ; Folge 3, 194)
> ISBN 3-525-82481-5
>
> 3 / ed. by Heinz Bechert. - 1997. - VI, 171 S. -  (Symposien zur
> Buddhismusforschung ; 4,3) (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften
> in Gttingen : philologisch-historische Klasse ; Folge 3, 222)
> ISBN 3-525-82419-X
>
> Hope it helps
> Peter Wyzlic
>