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Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king
Author
Title
Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king / Patrick Olivelle.
ISBN
9780300274905
0300274904
9780300270006
0300270003
Publication
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations( chiefly color), map
Local Notes
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EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Olivelle, Patrick. Ashoka. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 25, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Prologue
The Many Ashokas
Ashoka by Any Other Name
Part One
Raja: Ashoka the King
1. Maurya
2. Ruler
Territory and Population
Governance
The Imagined Community
Diplomacy
Society
3. Writer
4. Builder
Part Two
Upasaka: Ashoka the Buddhist
5. Deepening the Faith
Becoming a Buddhist
Going on Pilgrimage
6. Exhorting the Sangha
Instructing the Sangha
Admonishing the Sangha
7. Spreading the Faith
Ashoka's Buddhism
Part Three
Dharma: Ashoka the Moral Philosopher
8. Pivoting to Dharma
Dharma before Ashoka
9. Dharma as Moral Philosophy
Ahimsa as Dharma
Ashoka's Dharma
Gleaning from Silence
10. Preaching Dharma
Audience for Dharma: Gender and Class
Writing to Promote Dharma
Governance and Diplomacy in the Service of Dharma
Exemplar of Dharma
Part Four
Pasanda: Ashoka the Ecumenist
11. Religious Diversity
Ashoka and Pasandas
Ashoka and Popular Religion
12. Ecumenism
13. Civil Religion
Epilogue: Ashoka's Legacy and the Unravelling of the Ashokan Experiment
Appendix: Ashoka's Inscriptional Corpus
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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