Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king

Author(s)

• Olivelle, Patrick

Bibliographic Information

Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king

Patrick Olivelle

Yale University Press, 2023

• : hardcover

Other Title

Portrait of a philosopher king

Note

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

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BD05595046
• ISBN:
  • 9780300270006
• LCCN: 2023933125
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: xxxv, 356 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS451.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aśoka King of Magadha, active 259 B.C
  • LCSH : Buddhists -- Biography
  • LCSH : Buddhism -- History -- To ca. 100 A.D
  • LCSH : Buddhism -- India -- History
  • CSHF : Bouddhisme -- Histoire
  • CSHF : Bouddhisme -- Inde -- Histoire
  • LCSH : India -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
  • LCSH : India -- History -- Maurya dynasty, ca. 322 B.C.-ca. 185 B.C
  • CSHF : Inde -- Histoire -- ca 322-ca 185 av. J.-C. (Dynastie Maurya)