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Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king / Patrick Olivelle.
Loaned to Another Library DS451.5 .O45 2023
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olivelle, Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.
- Aśoka.
- India--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- India.
- Buddhists--Biography.
- Buddhists.
- India--History--Maurya dynasty, ca. 322 B.C.-ca. 185 B.C.
- Buddhism--History--To ca. 100 A.D.
- Buddhism.
- Buddhism--India--History.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations( chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Portrait of a philosopher king
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300270006
- 0300270003
- OCLC:
- 1375538909
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