Ashoka, the Beloved-of-the-Gods
(Did his empire really rest on pillars?)


*early maps*
*Gandhara*; *Ashoka*
*images of Sanchi*
 
 
 
 
REQUIRED WORK:
 

== Stein, pp. 73-83

== Embree, vol. 1, pp. 125-149: "Society and the State in Theravada Buddhism"

== The Introduction (down to where the number 1. appears) to "Vedanta and Buddhism: A Comparative Study," by Helmuth von Glasenapp (Buddhist Publication Society, 1978): at the *accesstoinsight* website.

 		  
 
     
 
 
 
FURTHER RESOURCES:
 

= The Achaemenid Persian empire extended into much of Pakistan (c.518-328) and was highly influential: here's a recent archaeological study of cultural cross-currents in *Akra, in northwestern Pakistan*

= Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997).

= "The Edicts of King Asoka," by Ven. S. Dhammika: on the *accesstoinsight* website. Another source for the same material: *Prof. Malaiya's website*
 

  
     
 

 
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