Ashoka : portrait of a philosopher king
2023,
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, xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
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| Publication information: |
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright: |
©2023 |
| ISBN: |
0300270003 |
| ISBN: |
9780300270006 |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
4485589 |
| Variant Title: |
Portrait of a philosopher king |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
xxxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations( chiefly color), map ; 24 cm |
| Date acquired: |
April 15, 2024
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| More creator details: |
Patrick Olivelle. |
| Contents note: |
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. |
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