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

Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka unravels the various avatars of India's most famous emperor,...
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Author: Nayanjot Lahiri
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Language: English
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Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand by Lahiri, Nayanjot

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

¥12,843

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

¥12,843
Author: Nayanjot Lahiri
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka unravels the various avatars of India's most famous emperor, revealing how he came to be remembered--and forgotten--in distinctive ways at particular points in time and in specific locations. Through personal journeys that take her across India and to various sites and cities in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand, archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri explores how Ashoka's visibility from antiquity to the modern era has been accompanied by a reinvention of his persona. Although the historical Ashoka spoke expansively of his ideas of governance and a new kind of morality, his afterlife is a jumble of stories and representations within various Buddhist imaginings. By remembering Ashoka selectively, Lahiri argues, ancient kings and chroniclers created an artifice, constantly appropriating and then remolding history to suit their own social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Author: Nayanjot Lahiri
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 09/02/2023
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9781438492841

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