c. 300 BC–c. 201 BC
Ashoka pillar at Lumbini
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Pilgrimage
Ashoka’s pillar inscription links Lumbini to the Buddha and documents early pilgrimage; it does not by itself establish every biographical detail.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- century · approximate
- End
- century · approximate
- Dating in the source document
- ~ siglo III 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
- UNESCO — Lumbinī (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- 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.