Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 231for the fact that some Scheduled Caste Sikhs are beginning to separate them-
selves into local hamlets and communities with their own schools and gurd-
waras that are beginning to look like separate caste identities.ENDNOTES
(^1) Dates for the Buddha’s life vary. Sri Lanka chronicles place it at 563 B.C.E.; a mainland tradi-
tion puts it at 450 B.C.E.; more recent research puts it at 485 B.C.E. (Gombrich 1984).
(^2) And a few centuries later, as we have seen, Ashoka opened these stupas, removed all but a frag-
ment from each, and built “84,000” more stupas (or at least quite a lot) throughout his empire.
(^3) Mughal is the Indianized term for the Mongols of Central Asia, and the name of the dynasty
that conquered and ruled India from 1526 to 1857.
(^4) He lived and conquered India during the time of the High Renaissance in Italy, when young
men like Leonardo da Vinci were also keeping meticulous private journals.
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