Buddhist Timeline
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560-480 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama
479 CE
1st Council results in four factions one year after Buddha's death
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469 CE
Approximately 16 factions ten years after Buddha's death
390 BCE
2nd Council declares a minority orthodox (Hinayana) and
the majority heretic (Mahayana)
297 BCE
King Asoka converted to Buddhism; Buddha from
small group to state religion and local religion to world religion
as Asoka sends out Buddhist missionaries
247 BCE
Asoka calls 3rd Council to agree on authentic
Buddhist scriptures
1st century CE
Perhaps as many as 500 sects of Buddhists
200 BCE - 200 CE
Development of Hinayana Buddhism
2nd century
Development of Mahayana Buddhism
320 CE to 600 CE
Development of Vajrayana Buddhism
480 CE
Bodhidharma goes as a Buddhist missionary to China
6th century CE
Buddhism enters Japan
5th to 7th century CE
Rise of Pure Land sects in China
7th to 9th century CE
Buddhism goes to Tibet; (8th century struggle with
local nature religion called Bonism which claimed the
gods were angry with the acceptance of the foreign religion,
Buddhism, by the Tibetans; Buddhism countered by installing
local Tibetan dieties as guardian to Buddha and Bodhisattvas
and by accepting indigenous rituals)
10th to 14th centuries CE
Buddhism's second revival in Tibet; lamaism
goes to the Mongol court in northern China,
11th century
Reform of sexual tantric tradition
11-13th centuries CE
India encounter's Islam, iconoclasm
13th century CE
Founding of Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen sects in Japan
13th century CE
Decline of Buddhism in northern India
15th century CE
Decline of Buddhism in southern India
1920s CE
Soviet Communist attack on Buddhism in Mongolia
1950 CE
Beginning of Chinese Communist attack on Buddhism
1952 CE
Formation of World Fellowship of Buddhists
Siddhartha Gautama
479 CE
1st Council results in four factions one year after Buddha's death
`
469 CE
Approximately 16 factions ten years after Buddha's death
390 BCE
2nd Council declares a minority orthodox (Hinayana) and
the majority heretic (Mahayana)
297 BCE
King Asoka converted to Buddhism; Buddha from
small group to state religion and local religion to world religion
as Asoka sends out Buddhist missionaries
247 BCE
Asoka calls 3rd Council to agree on authentic
Buddhist scriptures
1st century CE
Perhaps as many as 500 sects of Buddhists
200 BCE - 200 CE
Development of Hinayana Buddhism
2nd century
Development of Mahayana Buddhism
320 CE to 600 CE
Development of Vajrayana Buddhism
480 CE
Bodhidharma goes as a Buddhist missionary to China
6th century CE
Buddhism enters Japan
5th to 7th century CE
Rise of Pure Land sects in China
7th to 9th century CE
Buddhism goes to Tibet; (8th century struggle with
local nature religion called Bonism which claimed the
gods were angry with the acceptance of the foreign religion,
Buddhism, by the Tibetans; Buddhism countered by installing
local Tibetan dieties as guardian to Buddha and Bodhisattvas
and by accepting indigenous rituals)
10th to 14th centuries CE
Buddhism's second revival in Tibet; lamaism
goes to the Mongol court in northern China,
11th century
Reform of sexual tantric tradition
11-13th centuries CE
India encounter's Islam, iconoclasm
13th century CE
Founding of Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen sects in Japan
13th century CE
Decline of Buddhism in northern India
15th century CE
Decline of Buddhism in southern India
1920s CE
Soviet Communist attack on Buddhism in Mongolia
1950 CE
Beginning of Chinese Communist attack on Buddhism
1952 CE
Formation of World Fellowship of Buddhists