Some Important Buddhist dates

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1. 563/560 b.c. birth of Siddartha Gautama in Kapilavastu (present day Lumbini), near the Nepali/Indian border, six kilometres within present day Nepal; this is now contested by Indian scholars see link below
2. The real birth place of the Buddha (in Orissa of course !)
3. 483/480 b.c. parinirvana of Siddartha Gautama Shakyamuni and first council at Rajagrha
4. 383 b.c. ??? secound council at Vaisali
5. 327-324 b.c. Alexander's Indian expedition
6. c. 317 b.c. founding of Mauryan empire by Chandragupta Maurya
7. 268-233 b.c. Ashoka Maurya rules from Burma to Iran and from Nepal to South India
8. c. 246 b.c. Mahendra in Ceylon
9. c. 185 b.c. death of the last Mauryan ruler
10. c. 180-55 b.c. Indo-Greeks rulers in the North-West of India (Gandhara, present day Afghanistan and Pakistan)
11. 155-130 b.c. rule of the Indo-Greek Menander (Milinda)
12. 25-320 A.D. Kushan empire
13. 65 A.D. Buddhism in China
14. 1st/2nd century A.D.??? : the "Second Buddha" Nagarjuna
15. 320-490 A.D. Gupta empire
16. 4th century A.D. Buddhism in Korea, Indonesia
17. 5th century A.D. Buddhism in Borneo
18. 6th century A.D. Buddhism in Japan
19. 7th century A.D. Buddhism in Tibet
20. 606-647 A.D. Rule of Harsha in India
21. 632 A.D. the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo send his minister to India to study Sanskrit and Buddhism
22. 740-786 A.D. King Trisong Detsen calls Shantarakshita to Tibet
23. 787 A.D. foundation of Samye, first official Buddhist monastery in Tibet, by Padmasambhava (the Nying-ma-pa lineage)
24. 9th century A.D. Angkor Wat (Buddhism in Cambodia and South-Est Asia)
25. 1029-1042 A.D. Atisha Dipamkara Srijnana in Tibet (the Kadampa lineage)
26. 1040-1123 A.D. Milarepa (the Ka-gyu-pa lineage)
27. 1280-1368 A.D. Mongol (Yuan) dynasty in China, supremacy of the Sa-kya-pa lineage in Tibet
28. 1280-1295 A.D. Kubilai Khan rules over China (Marco Polo travels to China from Venezia)
29. 1357-1419 A.D. Lama Je Tsong-kha-pa (Gelug-pa lineage)
30. July 6th, 1935 - birth in Amdo province of Tibet of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, XIVth Dalai Lama
31. March 31st, 1959 - Tibetan uprising in Lhasa against the Han occupying army 

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