BBC podcast: Ashoka the Great

[Huseng]

Available here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0511tm1

One of the guests is Richard Gombrich.

Conveniently you can also download the mp3. There's a lot of other podcasts on the site too related to Buddhism if you search around.

[daelm]

Is this the In Our Time podcast? If yes, I enjoyed this episode. The time constraint means they can't go into it in enough detail, but it was good nevertheless. You're right that there are others on Buddhism, but they vary in quality - not because the people are not knowledgeable, but the subject often didn't lend itself to such a short discussion. The Zen one, if I remember right, will have you tearing you're hair out, for example.

[Huseng]

In this one fortunately Gombrich corrects the other two scholars on some of their assumptions and misunderstandings.

[daelm]

In this one fortunately Gombrich corrects the other two scholars on some of their assumptions and misunderstandings.

i remember that - if i remember correctly, he made a strong defense of Buddhism when the other guests largely positioned it as a theoretical proposition. i was quite touched.