...Teacher.

Blue Annals p.22 (cited Symp. IV.I, p.399)

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...earlier).

In the present volumes see: Symp(osium) IV, i, pp 344-57; 359-61; 398-9; 409-11; Symp. IV, 2. pp. 266-8. (nn. 15 and 17); 271 n.42.

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...conference.

Bechert, H., ``The date of the Buddha reconsidered'', IT (1982), pp. 29-36; ``A remark on the problem of the date of Mahavira'', IT (1983), pp. 287-90; Die Lebenszeit des Buddha - das älteste feststehende Datum der indischen Geschichte? (Göttingen, 1986); ``Remarks on the date of the Historical Buddha'', Buddhist Studies (1988), pp. 97-117.

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There were a few hold-outs, notably E. J. Thomas.

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...travail,''

Lamotte, E., Histoire du bouddhisme Indien des origines à l'ère Saka, Bibliothèque du Muséon, vol. 43 (Louvain, 1958), p.15. The origin of the expression ``working hypothesis'' in this context is usually attributed to Max Müller. (He applied it to the date of Samudragupta). However, the OED attributes its first use in English to R. H. Hutton in 1871.

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Cousins, L.S. ``The `Five Points' and the origins of the Buddhist schools'', in The Buddhist Forum, ed. T. Skorupski, ii (London, 1991), p.59f.

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Op.cit., pp. 55-7.

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...out.

Most clearly expressed by Combrich: Symp. IV, 2.p. 239 n.12.

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