The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.70

c23.70

The Mahāvamsa may be mistaken in attributing to Asoka the dispatch of missionaries to Pegu (*Sovanabhūmi*).² No such mission is mentioned in the inscriptions, and if it really occurred, it seems to have had little result. The Ceylon form of Buddhism appears to have been introduced effectively into Burma and Pegu at a very much later date; and there is reason to believe that the earliest Burmese Buddhism was of the Tantric Mahāyāna type, imported direct from Northern India many centuries after Asoka's time.³