Mind-Benders of Buddhist History
Three teachers, one century
The Buddha in India, Confucius in China, and Pythagoras in Greece all belonged to the same brief span of world history — the sixth-to-fifth centuries BCE — teaching within roughly a hundred years of one another, though the Buddha's exact dates (around 480–400 BCE on the shorter academic chronology) are still debated by historians.
How we know
Confucius 551–479 BCE; Pythagoras c. 570–495 BCE; the Buddha c. 480–400 BCE (short academic chronology; traditionally 563–483 BCE) — all active within the 6th–5th centuries BCE.
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