The most common Thai era enumeration is "Buddhist Era" (B.E.), which is the era of the Buddhist religion. However, the counting of B.E. in Thailand is different from some other counitres, such as sri lanka and Burma. The B.E. counting in Thailand began to count B.E.1 from 1 year after the lord Buddha's nirvana, so the first year when the Lond Buddha just passed away was counted as B.E.0 (zero) , when the first year comlated then it was counted as B.E.1 In sri Lanka and Burma Began to count B.E.1 since the year that the Lord Buddha passed away, so their Buddhist Era will be 1year earlier than thailland the time before the Buddhist Era is to be counted as "Before B.E.