Without Ashoka’s patronage, Buddhism might have remained a minor sect, struggling to gain widespread influence. But what would India have looked like in such an alternate history?

The Great King Ashoka's relentless quest for the revered relic - "The Ashes of the Buddha" - marked the genesis of his transformation and ignited the global spread of Buddhism. As he tirelessly ...

Author Patrick Olivelle’s new book talks of Ashoka, the great Mauryan emperor, who extended the empire across the Indian subcontinent. He was a trailblazer, a king, a moral philosopher, and an ...

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.

A conference in Delhi commemorates the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, focusing on Buddha Dharma's relevance in the ...

Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both tenets of Buddhism and the power of the emperor.

Asoka, a lotus farmer in northern Sri Lanka, leases a section of a lake near the ancient capital of Anuradhapura where he harvests the flowers. He then sells them to vendors at a nearby stupa.

Starting from the records of Asoka's Western Buddhist Mission, of which the extent is questioned by authorities on Indian history, and Origen's attribution of a knowledge of Buddhism to Britain ...

Unlike Vesak, Poson is specific to Sri Lanka and India. It celebrates the coming of Buddhism to the island through an embassy of five monks, one samanera, and one layman, led by Mahinda Thera, the son ...