1782 CE–1819 CE
Bodawpaya and the Thudhamma council
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Theravāda
According to Roger Bischoff’s survey, Bodawpaya settled a dispute over monastic dress and appointed a council of senior monks. The date covers his reign and does not assign a single year to every reform.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1782–1819
- 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: duration of a process.
Sources
- Roger Bischoff — Buddhism in Myanmar, BPS (1995) (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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