{"id":143543,"date":"2023-06-16T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=143543"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:07:33","slug":"which-of-the-following-statements-about-the-conversion-of-ashoka-to-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-statements-about-the-conversion-of-ashoka-to-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following statements about the conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Which of the following statements about the conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism is generally believed to be correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) It took place as a dramatic event soon after the Kalinga War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Ashoka was never converted to Buddhism; he only borrowed some if its ideas to propound his doctrine of dhamma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) His conversion to Buddhism was a gradual process<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) He became a convert to Buddhism under the influence of Upagupta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (c) His conversion to Buddhism was a gradual process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Which of the following statements about the conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism is generally believed to be correct? (a) It took place as a dramatic event soon after the Kalinga War (b) Ashoka was never converted to Buddhism; he only borrowed some if its ideas to propound his doctrine of dhamma (c) His conversion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":143547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-143543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143549,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143543\/revisions\/143549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143543"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=143543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}