 | 563/560 b.c. birth of Siddartha Gautama
in Kapilavastu (present day Lumbini), near the Nepali/Indian
border, six kilometres within present day Nepal |
| 483/480 b.c. parinirvana of Siddartha
Gautama Shakyamuni and first council at Rajagrha |
| 383 b.c. ??? secound council at
Vaisali |
| 327-324 b.c. Alexander's Indian
expedition |
| c. 317 b.c. founding of Mauryan empire
by Chandragupta Maurya |
| 268-233 b.c. Ashoka Maurya rules from
Burma to Iran and from Nepal to South India |
| c. 246 b.c. Mahendra in
Ceylon |
| c. 185 b.c. death of the last Mauryan
ruler |
| c. 180-55 b.c. Indo-Greeks rulers in the
North-West of India (Gandhara, present day Afghanistan and
Pakistan) |
| 155-130 b.c. rule of the Indo-Greek
Menander (Milinda) |
| 25-320 A.D. Kushan
empire |
| 65 A.D. Buddhism in
China |
| 1st/2nd century A.D.??? : the "Second
Buddha" Nagarjuna |
| 320-490 A.D. Gupta
empire |
| 4th century A.D. Buddhism in Korea,
Indonesia |
| 5th century A.D. Buddhism in
Borneo |
| 6th century A.D. Buddhism in
Japan |
| 7th century A.D. Buddhism in
Tibet |
| 606-647 A.D. Rule of Harsha in
India |
| 632 A.D. the Tibetan King Songtsen
Gampo send his minister to India to study Sanskrit and
Buddhism |
| 740-786 A.D. King Trisong Detsen
calls Shantarakshita to Tibet |
| 787 A.D. foundation of Samye, first
official Buddhist monastery in Tibet, by Padmasambhava (the
Nying-ma-pa lineage) |
| 9th century A.D. Angkor Wat
(Buddhism in Cambodia and South-Est Asia) |
| 1029-1042 A.D. Atisha Dipamkara
Srijnana in Tibet (the Kadampa lineage) |
| 1040-1123 A.D. Milarepa (the
Ka-gyu-pa lineage) |
| 1280-1368 A.D. Mongol (Yuan)
dynasty in China, supremacy of the Sa-kya-pa lineage in
Tibet |
| 1280-1295 A.D. Kubilai Khan rules
over China (Marco Polo travels to China from
Venezia) |
| 1357-1419 A.D. Lama Je Tsong-kha-pa
(Gelug-pa lineage) |
| July 6th 1935 - birth in Amdo province
of Tibet of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, XIVth Dalai
Lama |
| March 10th 1959 - Tibetan uprising in
Lhasa against the Han occupying army |
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