RT Article
T1 The Idea of the Historical Buddha
JF Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
VO 40
SP 1
OP 25
A1 Drewes, David
LA English
PB Peeters Publishers
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/183796050X
AB This paper discusses and reevaluates the idea of the historical Buddha. Focusing on a survey of nineteenth and twentieth-century scholarship, it argues that the Buddha’s historicity was never actually established and that he cannot properly be regarded as a historical figure.
DO 10.2143/JIABS.40.0.3269003