From Aśoka to Jayavarman VII:
Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia

By Hermann Kulke

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Aśoka (c. 268-232 BCE) and Jayavarman VII (1182-1220?), two of the greatest rulers of India and Southeast Asia, were Buddhists by any definition. However, the puzzling problem is that their deaths were followed by an inexorable decay of their erstwhile great empires.

About: Early Indian Buddhism

Published in 2014 in “Buddhism Across Asia: Volume 2” (Tansen Sen ed.) by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Bibtex Data

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    title={{F}rom {A}śoka to {J}ayavarman {V}{I}{I}: {S}ome {R}eflections on the {R}elationship between {B}uddhism and the {S}tate in {I}ndia and {S}outheast {A}sia},
    author={Hermann Kulke},
    booktitle={Buddhism Across Asia: Volume 2},
    editor={Tansen Sen},
    publisher={Cambridge University Press},
    address={Cambridge, UK},
    year=2014,
    pages={327--345},
    chapter=15,
    keywords={medieval,state,power,sea,indian},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/relationship-between-buddhism-and-the-state_kulke-hermann}
}

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