Myths & Samsara
We're back to Vijaya this week. Listen to the chronicle written over 1500 years after his time. What was so special about this king that the Buddhist priests would chronicle not only his ancestry but his odyssey and subsequent colonization of Sri Lanka?
Myths & Samsara
This conversation dives into material in the novel I'm drafting. We talk about Yaksha masks and their significance in a real-life context.
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