| ~400 BCE | Composition of earliest Buddhist texts |
| ~200 BCE | Earliest Mahāyāna documents |
| ~100 BCE – 100 | CE composition of Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, Vajracchedikā |
| 70 CE ± 50 | Gāndhārī Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (Falk) |
| 179 CE | First Chinese translation of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra by Lokakṣema (T 224) |
| ca 200 CE | Composition of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra |
| 286 CE | First Chinese translation of the Large Sutra by Dharmarakṣa (T 222) |
| 401-413 CE | Kumārajīva active as translator of Buddhist texts. |
| 404 CE | Kumārajīva translates the Large Sutra (T 223) and the Upadeśa or Dàzhìdù lùn《大智度論》 (T 1509). |
| 629-645 | Xuanzang travelling in the West. |
| 654 CE | Translation of the Dhāraṇīsamuccaya by Atikūṭa as Tuóluóní jí jīng 《陀羅尼集經》(T 901), probable source of the Heart Sutra dhāraṇī |
| 656 CE | Probably composition of the Xīnjīng (T 251); mentioned in (T 2053) |
| 661 CE (March 13) | Earliest physical evidence of the Xīnjīng. |
| ~700-800 CE | Composition of the Ratnaguṇasamcatagāthā |
| 730 CE | First mention of the Damingzhoujing (T 250) in the Kaiyuan Catalogue |
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