"The linguistic and textual diversity that characterizes Buddhism existed from the very beginning. Thus, any search for the exact, true, original words of the Buddha is not only doomed to disappoint but misconceived from the start."https://www.lionsroar.com/how-the-gandharan-manuscripts-change-buddhist-history/ …
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What constitutes "historical evidence" is tawdry in the history of "historical science" & Chronology. A number of documents were suppressed (what was/wasn't considered "canonical" in various "religious traditions"— pseudopigrapha/apocrypha labels, occult & heretical texts, etc).
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