Marking a significant moment in the shared heritage between India and Sri Lanka, a replica of King Ashoka's Vaishali Pillar ...

A replica of the ancient Ashokan Pillar has been erected on the premises of a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka in recognition of the “great service” of Emperor Ashoka to the island nation. Indian High ...

According to Buddhist historical sources, King Ashoka organized the Third Buddhist Council under the chairmanship of Moggaliputta Tissa at Pataliputra (now Patna) in 247 B.C.

Ashoka wished to deepen his knowledge of Buddhism and therefore took up a 256 day pilgrimage to the places associated with the life of Gautama Buddha in North India.

In a study published this week in Current Science, archaeologist Monica Smith and geographer Thomas Gillespie identified 121 possible locations of what are known as Ashoka's "edicts.". First they ...

King Ashoka of ancient India was not only a ... he also wrote himself permanently into South Asian religious history by converting to Buddhism and ensuring that it spread beyond the ...

Ashoka’s personal religion included a faith in Buddhism combined with a belief in the gods, heaven and hell, karma, ethics, punya (merit), and papa (demerit).

King Ashoka, the ruler who adopted Buddhism, might not be the Maurya king who fought the Kalinga war, says Vedveer Arya, an Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) officer and author of the book ...

Ashoka, whose name means “the sorrowless one,” was once better known in the West as the third-century BCE Indian emperor who—sickened by the human toll of his own conquests—renounced ...

By Upali Rupasinghe. The recent administrative changes and political developments in the state of Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian government ended the State’s special status,Hindus and Buddhists ...