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Document Details : Title: The Idea of the Historical Buddha Author(s): DREWES, David Journal: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume: 40 Date: 2017 Pages: 1-25 DOI: 10.2143/JIABS.40.0.3269003 Abstract : This paper discusses and reevaluates the idea of the historical Buddha. Focusing on a survey of nineteenth and twentieth-century scholarship, it argues that the Buddha’s historicity was never actually established and that he cannot properly be regarded as a historical figure. |
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