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Olivelle, Patrick,

Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king / Portrait of a philosopher king Patrick Olivelle. - xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations( chiefly color), map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.

The many Ashokas -- Ashoka by any other name -- Rājā : Ashoka the king -- Maurya -- Ruler -- Writer -- Builder -- Upāsaka : Ashoka the Buddhist -- Deepening the faith -- Exhorting the sangha -- Spreading the faith -- Dharma : Ashoka the moral philosopher -- Pivoting to dharma -- Dharma as moral philosophy -- Preaching dharma -- Pāṣaṇḍa : Ashoka the ecumenist -- Religious diversity -- Ecumenism -- Civil religion -- Ashoka's legacy and the unravelling of the Ashokan experiment.

ISBN: 9780300270006 0300270003

LCCN: 2023933125

Subjects--Personal Names:
Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Buddhists--Biography.
Buddhism--History--To ca. 100 A.D.
Buddhism--History.--India
Bouddhisme--Histoire.
Bouddhisme--Histoire.--Inde

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Kings and rulers--Biography.
India--History--Maurya dynasty, ca. 322 B.C.-ca. 185 B.C.
Inde--Histoire--ca 322-ca 185 av. J.-C. (Dynastie Maurya)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: 934.045092 OLI

Dewey Class. No.: 934.045092 OLI