@Meaningness Any chance you can recommend a book on the history of Buddhism? I'm especially interested in the early history in South Asia
Unfortunately I don’t know the early period at all well. @Jayarava is highly knowledgeable and might have a suggestion.
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My non-expert impression is that there is no actual early history in the sense of reliable documentary evidence.
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Only some time around 100 BC is there any evidence at all, other than scriptural fables, and detailed history is sketchy until well into AD.
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