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Ashoka in Ancient India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Ashoka in Ancient India

In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, ...

The Edicts of King Asoka
  • Language: en

The Edicts of King Asoka

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Indianized States of Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The Indianized States of Southeast Asia

Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.

The Wheel of King Asoka
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

The Wheel of King Asoka

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Relates how the powerful ruler of India, King Asoka, came to give up the ways of war and to rule his empire with love.

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC. This is a thoroughly revised edition, with a substantial new afterword by the author, a revised bibliography and index, and a map showing new archaeological sites.

A History of Zoroastrianism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 620

A History of Zoroastrianism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume traces the history of Zoroastrianism at times and places where its existence has previously been largely ignored, or treated only episodically. Literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence has been drawn on (some of it only recently brought to light), and local developments are distinguished. In Iran itself some 200 years of Macedonian rule had little effect on the national religion. To the east, Zoroastrianism survived in the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms and under Mauryan suzereinty, where it came into contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Mediterranean lands it was maintained by Iranian expatriates well down into Roman imperial times. They adopted Greek for their written tongue, and Zoroastrian doctrines thus became known in the Greco-Roman world. Study is made accordingly of Zoroastrian contributions to Hellenistic thought, and to Judaism, Christianity and Mithraism; and an excursus provides a thorough reassessment of the Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha.

2500 Years of Buddhism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

2500 Years of Buddhism

About the life of Buddha

Sacred Mandates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Sacred Mandates

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history of inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, in order to help us understand and develop policies to address challenges in the region today. This book argues that understanding the diversity of past legal orders helps explain the forms of contemporary conflict, as well as the conflicting historical narratives that animate tensions. Rather than p...

Gandharan Buddhism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Gandharan Buddhism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we understand the region and its cultural complexity. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. By integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, the contributors articulate the nature of Gandharan Buddhism and it...

The Great Events by Famous Historians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

The Great Events by Famous Historians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1904
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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