@Meaningness Any chance you can recommend a book on the history of Buddhism? I'm especially interested in the early history in South Asia
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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This is not the consensus view, however, and may be excessively skeptical.
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