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I don t think Ashoka s dharma is a simple recasting of the Buddhist dharma, says author Patrick Olivelle

I don t think Ashoka s dharma is a simple recasting of the Buddhist dharma, says author Patrick Olivelle
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Ashoka was not faceless He made himself visible through his words : historian Nayanjot Lahiri

An interview with the historian, whose latest book is ‘Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand’.

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Why emperor Ashoka still matters: Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and vocalist TM Krishna in conversation

Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.

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