Are khandhas early or late EBT?

[seniya]

@Dana

I was surprised to read your question, whether khandhas are early or late EBT. Because the Buddha not only mentioned them in his first discourse when explaining dukkha

I wasn’t surprised of this, because scholarly or academic study of Buddhism with textual criticism and historical approach is different from traditional approach. In traditional approach we believe the Buddha has taught the first discourse with the same content (Four Noble Truths & Eightfold Noble Path) as we have now in the Buddhist canon and all the Buddha’s discourses have been preserved by 500 Arahants in so-called the Buddhist Council in a cave near Rajagaha three months after the Buddha’s demise. But in historical approach, we cannot be certain about this. For example, there are scholars said that the First Council did not happened historically or the Four Noble Truths is not the Buddha’s first teaching. Yet, I have not found any scholarly work or academic paper about whether the five khandhas is early or late.