trad. 500 BCE–trad. 301 BCE
Awakening in Buddhist tradition
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Origins and memory
Buddhist narratives place Gautama’s awakening at Bodh Gaya; its date and biographical details vary across chronologies and do not derive from a contemporary record.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- century · attributed by a tradition
- End
- century · attributed by a tradition
- Dating in the source document
- ~ siglos V–IV a. C.
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: dating window; it does not mean the event lasted for that entire interval.
Sources
- Met — Life of the Buddha (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2003-10-01
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.