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The Mahayanic tradition has the Sutra being written in the lifetime of the historic Buddha (about 500 BCE). Present thinking is tha the oldest parts of the text (Chapters 1-9 and 17) were written between 100 BCE and 100 CE, and that the text, in its modern form, dates fron 200 CE.

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