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... evidence which can be called historical for the centuries before B.C. 260 , and to assign to the era of Asoka an immense importance , as that in which Buddhism and Buddhist literature took the shape in which we vi PREFACE.
... evidence which can be called historical for the centuries before B.C. 260 , and to assign to the era of Asoka an immense importance , as that in which Buddhism and Buddhist literature took the shape in which we vi PREFACE.
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... Professor Oldenberg . The work of Charles Turnour and of Professor Childers deserves to be respectfully recalled to mind whenever Pali studies are spoken of , especially in Ceylon . In the chapter on Asoka , I am under special viii PREFACE.
... Professor Oldenberg . The work of Charles Turnour and of Professor Childers deserves to be respectfully recalled to mind whenever Pali studies are spoken of , especially in Ceylon . In the chapter on Asoka , I am under special viii PREFACE.
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Reginald Stephen Copleston. In the chapter on Asoka , I am under special obli- gation to the Corpus Inscriptionum of General Cunningham , and the Inscriptions de Piyadasi of M. E. Sénart . Although I have aimed at exercising an inde ...
Reginald Stephen Copleston. In the chapter on Asoka , I am under special obli- gation to the Corpus Inscriptionum of General Cunningham , and the Inscriptions de Piyadasi of M. E. Sénart . Although I have aimed at exercising an inde ...
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... ASOKA , 256 XXI . CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERA- TURE : Note on the Pitakas and the Ruwan weli Dagaba , 282 PART III - BUDDHISM IN CEYLON XXII . MAHINDA AND THE CONVERSION OF CEYLON : The Lesser Sermon of the Parable of the ...
... ASOKA , 256 XXI . CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERA- TURE : Note on the Pitakas and the Ruwan weli Dagaba , 282 PART III - BUDDHISM IN CEYLON XXII . MAHINDA AND THE CONVERSION OF CEYLON : The Lesser Sermon of the Parable of the ...
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... Asoka , at the earlier date , is said to have sent missions to Cashmere and some other Northern ' countries . But there is reason to think that he did not succeed in establishing it there any more than in Burma and other Southern ...
... Asoka , at the earlier date , is said to have sent missions to Cashmere and some other Northern ' countries . But there is reason to think that he did not succeed in establishing it there any more than in Burma and other Southern ...
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