Chronology of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (summarized by me)
422-399 B.C.E. Life of Sakyamuni Buddha
405 First Buddhist Council at Rajagrha
305 Second Buddhist Council at Vaisali
284 Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra
100 Beginnings of Mahanaya Buddhism in India
1st Century C.E. Buddhism enters Central Asia and China
150-250 Life of Nagarjuna (teacher-systematized Mahanaya teaching of emptiness and path of the bodhisattva)
6th Century Tibet invades Chinese territories in Central Asia
618-906 Chinese Tang DynastyL apogee of Buddhism in China
640 Chinese princess Wencheng travels to Tibet to marry Songtsen Gampo
720-798 Tantric Buddhism arises and develops in India
760 Santaraksita and Padmasambhava travel to Tibet, beginning of " First dissemination" of Buddhism
767 Consecration of Samye, first monastery in Tibet
838-842 Reign of Lang Darma, end of first dissemination
845 Persecution of Buddhism in China
950 Beginning of rivival of monastic Buddhism in central Tibet
late 10th century Tibetans travel to India to study Buddhism
958-1055 Life of great translator : Rinchen Sangpo
978 Rinchen Sangpo returns from India, beginning of "second dissemination"
1042 Atisa arrives in Tibet
1290-1364 Life of Pudon, Tibetan canon compiled by 1334
1292-1361 Life of Dolpopa, who initiated "other-emptiness" doctrine
1357-1419 Lift of Tsong Khapa, beginning of Gelukpa order
1409 Founding of Ganden Monastery near Lhasa
1543-1588 Life of Sonam Gyatso, the third Dalai Lama, beginning of Dalai Lama lineage
1617-1682 Life of fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Losang Gyatso, beginning of rule of Tibet by Dalai Lama
1644-1912 Qing Dynasty in China, patronage of Tibetan Buddhism
1909-10 Chinese troops under command of Ma Weiqi and Zhao Erfeng invade eastern Tibet, sack monasteries and march on Lhasa
1918 Formal boundary between Tibet and China established
1950 People's Liberation Army enters Tibet
1955 Process of collecticization begins in Kham, monasteries destroyed, monks and nuns killed
1959 March 10 uprising, fourteenth Dalai Lama flees to India, establishes government in exile, persecution of Buddhism by Chinese
1964-1974 Cultural Revolution in China and Tibet, widespread destruction of religious monuments
1976 Death of Mao Zedong, some easing of religious repression
1987 Dalai Lama proposes Five Point Peace Plan
1989 Dalai Lama awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee accused by China of "politicizing" the prize and interfering with its internal affairs, riots by scores of TIbetans suppressed by Chinese security forces
2006 Dalai Lama denounces wearing of fur during Kalacakra ceremony in India, sparking fur burnings all over Tibetan cultural area
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