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King Aśoka and BuddhismHISTORICAL AND LITERARY STUDIESEDITED BYANURADHA SENEVIRATNABUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETYKANDYSRI LANKAPUBLISHED IN 1994BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETYP.O. BOX 6154, SANGHARAJA MAWATHAKANDY, SRI LANKACOPYRIGHT © 1994 BY ANURADHA SENEVIRATNAISBN 955–24–0065–2.
Page 1: King Asoka and BuddhismHistorical &
Page 7 and 8: Anuradha Seneviratna is Professor o
Page 9 and 10: 8. Conclusions ....................
Page 11 and 12: Editor’s PrefaceALARGE NUMBER OF
Page 13 and 14: AcknowledgementsTHE EDITOR AND PUBL
Page 15 and 16: unit of a new order of magnitude in
Page 17 and 18: eally mean by kamma, etc. Aśoka do
Page 19 and 20: laity are to come each uposatha to
Page 21 and 22: says to the elder, “Since the Sa
Page 23 and 24: “Defender of the Faith,” called
Page 25 and 26: sources say 42 that Mahinda stayed
Page 27 and 28: 22. Bhabra inscription.23. Kosam, S
Page 29 and 30: eflect a more complex situation but
Page 31 and 32: in Kalinga. The Major Rock Edict XI
Page 33 and 34: in addressing the sangha. He states
Page 35 and 36: as a reference to true and false go
Page 37 and 38: to elephant-keepers was to chiefs w
Page 39 and 40: We are used to treating the Mauryan
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Page 43 and 44: all future conquests will be by per
Page 45 and 46: possibly fully aware of their role
Page 47 and 48: The discussion on what constitutes
Page 49 and 50: patronage which he extended to it d
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that they should adopt the policy o
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4. Was he actually involved in the
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(3) MRE III, a unique text found on
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oped a closer association with monk
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Now comes the problem of reconcilin
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6 th Aśoka intervenes in the suspe
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The central issues before the histo
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This is due to the repentance of th
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There are some topics which have be
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Therefore, acting accordingly, you
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other suitable occasions on any day
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RE XII is Aśoka’s Magna Carta on
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version to Buddhism persists as reg
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these texts. Twice in MRE III he ca
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These teachings, in fact, are the v
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If Aśoka was responsible for this
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Conspicuous by its absence is any r
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Antiyoka (also mentioned in RE II):
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missions to Greek kingdoms in the d
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Here again, the Sri Lankan Pali sou
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monk responsible for his conversion
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had to be altered in the light of n
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Notes1. H.G. Wells, The Outline of
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Thapar, Aśoka and the Decline of t
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points worth considering.” T.W. R
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were instituted. Duties and functio
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4Aśoka’s Edicts and the ThirdBud
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step further in describing the last
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All these references are of great s
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names of the suttas are given in th
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and giving them white clothes he di
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in the previous sentence. All event
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sibility for disrobing the heretics
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Notes1. More than anywhere else in
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ut I did not make great progress fo
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gave protection to the Order and en
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philosophy of life with others livi
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concluded that the Mahāvaṃsa was
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mission to Sri Lanka by assigning A
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4. The Political BackgroundDuring A
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after the conquest of Kalinga the B
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5. The Sri Lanka-Kalinga TieThe pol
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Dharmapradīpikā of the 13 th cent
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envoys bearing valuable presents to
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The adoption by Tissa of the title
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successfully paint his glowing pict
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monks because they spent some time
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Devānampiyatissa was a form of the
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concept of Dharma, the Universal La
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16. Thapar, A History of India, 1:7
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45. JRAS (CB), 1929, p. 282; Adikar
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starting point for a study of the g
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In the North Indian tradition, howe
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A. The Early Traditions1. The Gift
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the Aśokāvadāna are rather diffe
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This is not to say that Aśoka in t
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ways serve to beget more cruelty, f
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There is in this a kind of Sinhales
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and King Ajātasattu brought there
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When he heard: “There are eighty-
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time, it is claimed, the Buddha mer
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B. Later DevelopmentsWe have looked
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the fairly late (14 th century?) Da
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interpretation of Kṣemendra seems
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taking the construction of 84,000 s
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Having passed this first checkpoint
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so meditating, the flames did not h
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Notes1. N.A. Nikam and Richard McKe
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13. See P.H.L. Eggermont, “New No
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34. See the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
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53. Jacqueline ver Eecke, ed. and t
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7Emperor Aśoka’s Place in Histor
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dition has highlighted as its conce
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These verses are interpreted as con
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in Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇ
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purpose has been religious edificat
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(2) The genealogy had been wrongly
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holy places connected with the Budd
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Aśoka, as elaborated in the previo
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est in both recording and studying
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Buddhist countries, 47 namely, Burm
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apart — provide substantial infor
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from them a rousing welcome charact
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how he had been touched to believe
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Nehru who said, “Aśoka is one of
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explanation. So they continued to q
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He had, nevertheless, to admit that
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The Mauryan period was the culminat
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problems of his times. It is quite
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identification with Buddhism for ma
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Being speculations built upon impre
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The majority of the Indian scholars
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Notes1. Although Asiatic Researches
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11. Stein, Vol. I, pp. 74 - 75.12.
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29. Ibid., pp. 239 - 40 (C & N ed.,
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y Ratanapala of Thailand in 1517, g
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54. H.G. Wells, The Outline of Hist
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82. Ibid., pp. 142 - 43.83. Ibid.,
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Areas to which Buddhist Missions we
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