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Reply Fri 20 Jul, 2018 08:18 pm
In the Medicine King chapter of the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha instructs the start of propagation of the Lotus Dharma: “In the fifth Five-hundred years after the Buddha’s passing”.

Would it be wrong if the bold part were rephrased as "fifth five hundred years"?

Thanks.
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Reply Sat 21 Jul, 2018 06:40 am
Is there some kind of significance to 500 year increments?

If so, then the “event” needs its designation and deserves to be capitalized.
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Reply Sat 21 Jul, 2018 10:20 am
@PUNKEY,
Thanks, PUNKEY.
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