Who Is Ashoka? India's Pacifist King Part 1

Emperor Ashoka: A Bloodsoaked Pacifist INDIAN HISTORY DOCUMENTARY

If you look at the flag of modern-day India or the money changing hands between modern-day Indians you may be surprised to discover that they have a link to an Emperor that reigned more than 2000 years ago.

He is one of if not the only powerful ruler in world history that tried to conquer by way of morality, and his giant stone pillars, once lost to the sands of time, but now raised again from the Earth tell the story of a complicated man, once bloodthirsty and then tranquil. A man that transformed Buddhism from a small philosophical sect into a global religion. But could his entire legacy be made up? Ancient propaganda still working today. We’ll look at all of this and more on this double episode on the life and legacy of Ashoka the Great.

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Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor (https://amzn.to/2IIEzPj)


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Albinski, Henry S. “The Place of the Emperor Asoka in Ancient Indian Political Thought.” Vol. 2, no. 1, 1958, pp. 62–75., doi:10.2307/2109166. Accessed 23 Apr. 2018.

Fleet, J. F. “The Last Words of Asoka.” 1913, pp. 655–658., www.jstor.org/stable/25189028. Accessed 23 Apr. 2018.

Gelblum, Tuvia. “The Spirit of Aśoka.” Vol. 8, no. 3, 1957, pp. 261–271., www.jstor.org/stable/29753916. Accessed 23 Apr. 2018.

Murthy, H. V. S. “Was Aśoka a Buddhist?” Vol. 9, no. 3, 1958, pp. 230–232., www.jstor.org/stable/29754012. Accessed 23 Apr. 2018.

Thapar, Romila. “Ashoka — A Retrospective.” Vol. 44, no. 45, 2009, pp. 31–37., www.jstor.org/stable/25663762. Accessed 23 Apr. 2018.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/this-excerpt-from-a-new-book-demolishes-emperor-ashoka-reputation-as-a-pacifist/story-puxXlUpPsDy4TqELZ3UonN.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tpy82

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Asoka_-_the_Buddhist_Emperor_of_India/Chapter_2



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