↑ Drewes, David (2015). “Oral Texts in Indian Mahayana”. Indo-Iranian Journal. 58 (2): 131. doi:10.1163/15728536-05800051. The idea that Buddhist texts were first written down in the first century bce has been widely current since the nineteenth century, but has never been much more than a guess. Its only basis is a short passage, two verses long, found in both the fourth or fifth-century Dīpavaṃsa and later Mahāvaṃsa,that states that the Tipiṭaka and commentaries were first written down at this time...however, it fairly clearly does not even intend to record the first time writing was ever used for Buddhist texts, but the first creation of a complete set of written scriptures in Sri Lanka.
1 2 Lars Fogelin (2006). Archaeology of Early Buddhism. AltaMira. tr. 13. ISBN978-0-7591-0750-2., Quote: "As of the Pali Canon of Sri Lanka, it was extensively redacted in the fifth or sixth century A.D. (Bechert 1978; Collins 1990; Trainor 1997)".
↑ Stargardt, Janice. Tracing Thoughts Through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma., Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000, page 25.
1 2 3 Witzel, Michael. "Moving Targets? Texts, Language, Archaeology and History in the Late Vedic and Early Buddhist Periods." Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 52, no. 2/3, 2009, pp. 287–310. JSTOR24664702.
↑ Von Hinüber, Oskar (1997). A Handbook of Pali Literature (bằng tiếng Anh) (ấn bản 1). New Delhi: Munishiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. tr. 4–5. ISBN81-215-0778-2.
↑ Jiang, Wu; Chia, Lucille; Chen, Zhichao (2016). Jiang, Wu; Chia, Lucille (biên tập). Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia – The Formation and Transformation of The Chinese Buddhist Canon. New York: Columbia University Press. tr. 145. "In the fourth year of the Kaibao 開寶 reign (971), Emperor Taizu (r. 960-975) of the Song Dynasty 宋太祖 ordered the first carving of a set of woodblocks for the Chinese Buddhist Canon." (aka the Kaibao Canon)
