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Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king / Patrick Olivelle.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations( chiefly color), map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300270006
- 0300270003
- Portrait of a philosopher king
- Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C
- Buddhists -- Biography
- Buddhism -- History -- To ca. 100 A.D
- Buddhism -- India -- History
- Bouddhisme -- Histoire
- Bouddhisme -- Inde -- Histoire
- 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)
- 934.045092 OLI
- 934.045092 OLI
Contents:
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.
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| 934 TYA South Asia before the common era : revisiting sources and historian's approaches / | 934.02 THA The Aryan : Recasting constructs | 934.04 OLI Aśoka in history and historical memory / | 934.045092 OLI Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king / | 940 TIL Coercion, capital and European states, AD 990 - 1992 | 940.273 GUH-2 Patriots and partisans / | 940.354 DAS India, Empire, and First World War Culture : |
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.