Description: Searching for Ashoka : Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand, Hardcover by Lahiri, Nayanjot, ISBN 1438492855, ISBN-13 9781438492858, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Searching for Ashoka : Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Number of Pages: 258 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Buddhism / History, Asia / Southeast Asia, Asia / General, Asia / India & South Asia
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Nayanjot Lahiri, Lahiri
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
