Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand

01 December, 2022

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Nayanjot Lahiri

The author explores the history of various sites and cities connected to Buddhism, including in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand, focussing in particular on how Ashoka’s legacy has been subject to distortion, reinvention and appropriation.

Permanent Black, Rs 895, 258 pages

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