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 …
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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in a surprising coincidence, most scholars find that the bits THEY LIKE are early and the bits they don’t are late
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