Jiu foli 舊佛歷

舊佛歷

The old Buddhist calender used 1027 BCE as the date of the Buddha's death, and counted years from that date. This system was still in use in the early 20th century ^[1] The current Buddhist calendar uses 543 BCE as the starting date, so subtract 483 from an old Buddhist year to convert into the new system.

Interestingly, 1027 BCE was also one of the proposed dates for the founding of the Zhōu 周 dynasty.

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Notes

1. ↑ See Joseph Edkins, Chinese Buddhism: a volume of sketches, historical, descriptive, and critical, second edition, revised (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893), 12.