Luckily for those of us with too much time, Gregory Schopen has an entire book of papers about dating Indic Buddhismhttps://books.google.com.vn/books?id=rxdZ-BVNm_IC&lpg=PR9&ots=TqXtkY8IH3&dq=%20Stones%20and%20bones%20buddhist&lr&pg=PR2#v=onepage&q=Stones%20and%20bones%20buddhist&f=false …
vast scholarly structures rest on the belief that the whole Canon, or most/much/some of it dates to ~450 BC,
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and the field would have to start over pretty much from scratch if it’s mostly/all centuries later.
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and everyone would have to admit that they had not only been wrong, but failed to ask obvious elementary questions,
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