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Author : Meena V. Talim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist inscriptions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215131678
Aśoka, fl. 272 B.C.-232 B.C., King of Magadha.
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226586103
Author : Shravasti Dhammika,Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9552401046
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : India
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012438768
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022408566
The Importance Of Asoka`S Edicts Engraved On Pillars, Rock Surfaces And Tablets Lies In The History Of Indian Art, In The Fact, That The Monolithic Pillars Bearing These Edicts Have Survived The Ravages Of Time In Widely Seperated Parts Of The Subcontinent And The Animals Which Form The Crowning Feature Of These Columns And Comprise The First Important Group Of Indian Stone Sculptures.
Author : Nayanjot Lahiri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674915251
In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka’s lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri’s account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty’s third emperor—a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka’s edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the time, wished to communicate directly with his people. The voice he projected was personal, speaking candidly about the watershed events in his life and expressing his regrets as well as his wishes to his subjects. Ashoka’s humanity is conveyed most powerfully in his tale of the Battle of Kalinga. Against all conventions of statecraft, he depicts his victory as a tragedy rather than a triumph—a shattering experience that led him to embrace the Buddha’s teachings. Ashoka in Ancient India breathes new life into a towering figure of the ancient world, one who, in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, “was greater than any king or emperor.”
Author : John S. Strong
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.
ISBN : 8120806166
This first English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of India during the third century B.C. and one of the most important rulers in the history of Buddhism. Asoka has hitherto been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent. Through an extensive critical essay and a fluid translation, John Strong examines the importance of the Asoka of the legends for our overall understanding of Buddhism. Professor Strong contrasts the text with the Pali traditions about Kind Asoka and discusses the Buddhist view of kingship, the relationship of the state and the Buddhist community, the king s role in relating his kingdom to the person of the Buddha, and the connection between merit making, cosmology, and Buddhist doctrine. An appendix provides summaries of other stories about Asoka.
Author : D.C. Sircar
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788123024523
The book presents the English translation of the inscriptions of Asoka , one of the most sincere followers of the Buddha. The objective of the book is to carry the message of Asoka's edicts to the public . Although the translation closely follows the texts of the epigraphic records, it has been made simple so that it is easily intelligible to the general reader.
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008219019
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404172199
Author : Aśoka (konge af Magadha.)
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Aśoka (King of Magadha)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Inscriptions
ISBN : OXFORD:N13442388
Author : Vincent Arthur Smith
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120613031
Author : Georg Bühler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Inscriptions, Prakrit
ISBN : OXFORD:N13962775
Author : Bruce Rich
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807095539
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war, yet his empire rested on a political system that prioritized material wealth and amoral realpolitik. This system had been perfected by Kautilya, a statesman who wrote the world's first treatise on economics. In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on thinkers from across the ages—from Aristotle and Adam Smith to George Soros.
