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100			_aOlivelle, Patrick
245			_aAshoka : portrait of a Philosopher king
260			_aHaryana _bHarper Collins Pub. _c2023
300			_axxxix,356,iip.
505			_aContents Abbreviations xi Series Editor's Foreword xiii Preface xvii Prologue xxi The Many Ashokas xxi Ashoka by Any Other Name xxx PART ONE Raja: Ashoka the King 3 1. Maurya 5 2. Ruler 18 Territory and Population 20 Governance 30 The Imagined Community 47 Diplomacy 49 Society 54 3. Writer 60 4. Builder 85 PART TWO Upasaka: Ashoka the Buddhist 99 5. Deepening the Faith 101 Becoming a Buddhist 101 Going on Pilgrimage 109 6. Exhorting the Sangha 114 Instructing the Sangha 115 Admonishing the Sangha 124 7. Spreading the Faith 134 Ashoka's Buddhism 142 PART THREE Dharma: Ashoka the Moral Philosopher 149 8. Pivoting to Dharma 151 Dharma before Ashoka 155 9. Dharma as Moral Philosophy 161 Ahimsa as Dharma 162 Ashoka's Dharma 172 Gleaning from Silence 182 10. Preaching Dharma 188 Audience for Dharma: Gender and Class 190 Writing to Promote Dharma 193 Governance and Diplomacy in the Service of Dharma 199 Exemplar of Dharma 205 PART FOUR Pasande Ashoka the Ecumenist 213 11. Religious Diversity 216 Ashoka and Pasandas 216 Ashoka and Popular Religion 233 12. Ecumenism 240 13. Civil Religion 257 Epilogue. Ashoka's Legacy and the Unravelling of the Ashokan Experiment 266 Appendix: Ashoka's Inscriptional Corpus 277 Glossary 321 Bibliography 325 Index 341
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