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 …
throughout the decades of their academic careers, which was in retrospect really stupid
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Pali scholars claim to have hermeneutic methods that reveal internal evidence in the texts that make them self-dating
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But the different scholars have very different opinions about what these supposed methods reveal, i.e. what’s early vs late
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I ranted about more-or-less this at https://vividness.live/2015/11/25/what-the-buddha-really-said/ … (but didn’t get into the evidence in any detail)
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