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Ashoka in Ancient India
Inbunden, 2015
323 kr
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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 …
Searching for Ashoka
Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Häftad, 2023
463 kr
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Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka unravels the various avatars of India's most famous …
Searching for Ashoka
Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Inbunden, 2023
1286 kr
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Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka unravels the various avatars of India's most famous …
Finding Forgotten Cities
How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
Häftad, 2024
477 kr
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A century ago, in the autumn of 1924, the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that dramatically altered existing perceptions of South Asia’s antiquity: he proclaimed the discovery of “the civilization of the Indus Valley.” This was seen as monumental - on the same scale as the …
Time Pieces
A Whistle-Stop Tour through Ancient India
E-bok, 2018
45 kr
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''There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient India, but those we have yield a rich tapestry.'' The oldest surviving love graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a …
Buddhism in Asia
Revival and Reinvention
Av Nayanjot Lahiri, Upinder Singh
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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The birth of Buddhism goes back to the sixth century BCE and, over the centuries, there has been considerable variety as well as considerable change in its doctrines, practices and propagation across the different parts of Asia. This volume showcases the expansion in the religion's contours and …
