Open Question
Tradition places its first use at the very start of the Buddha's teaching career, but the Buddha's own chronology is unsettled among historians, and no source assigns the formula a specific year.
What would resolve this A firmer scholarly resolution of the Buddha's own chronology, or textual evidence dating the formula's earliest use independently of the traditional narrative that carries it.
OpenBuddhist studiesRupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism
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The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.