Appendix I
Key Historical Dates
| Buddhist/Jodo-Shinshu | Christianity | |
| 600 B.C.E | Shakyamuni Buddha born (ca. 560) | |
| 500 | ||
| 400 | ||
| 300 | King Ashoka takes reign (268) | |
| 200 | ||
| 100 | Mahayana Buddhism emerges | |
| 0 (C.E.) | Jesus of Nazareth born | |
| 100 | ||
| 200 | Nagarjuna (Ryuju) | |
| 300 | Christianity becomes religion of Roman Empire (early 4th c.) | |
| 400 | Vasubandhu (Tenjin) | Ausustine strengthens Christian position (354-430) |
| 500 | Tan-luan (Donran) | |
| 600 | Tao-ch’o (Doshaku) | |
| 700 | ||
| 800 | Charles Martel crowned Holy Roman Emperor (800) | |
| 900 | Genshin | |
| 1000 | Split of the Roman and Orthodox Churches
(1054) First Crusades (1096-99) |
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| 1100 | Shinran born (1173) Honen claims independence of Pure Land school (1175) |
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| 1200 | Shinran dies (1263) Shinran’s daughter Kakushinni donates property (1277) Honganji main hall build (1338) |
Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) |
| 1300 | ||
| 1400 | Rennyo rebuilds main temple (1482) | |
| 1500 | Shogun Nobunaga begins 10 year siege of Osaka temple (1570) | Martin Luther initiates the Protestant movement (1620) |
| 1600 | Pilgrims arrive in North America (1620) | |
| 1700 | ||
| 1800 | Government settles Sango wakuran
doctrinal controversy (1806) Jodo-Shinshu missionaries arrive in Hawaii (1889) & the mainland (1899) |
Social Gospel movement in U.S. Historical method challenges Biblical assumptions |
| 1900 | Mainland U.S. branch renamed: Buddhist Churches of America (1944) | Second Vatican Council to liberalize Catholic ritual and theology (1962-1965) |