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Some Important Buddhist dates

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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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