This article explores how the absence of Ashoka’s Buddhist influence might have altered India’s religion, governance, culture, and global impact. Following the Kalinga War, Ashoka was deeply ...

Eight years after Ashoka’s ascension, he announced a war against Kalinga. Inscriptions say that ... of the Buddha inspired him and he embraced Buddhism. Ashoka wished to deepen his knowledge ...

Emperor Ashoka is credited with remaking the Mauyran Dynasty from a war machine into a society of tolerance and nonviolence, based on Buddhism ... campaign to conquer Kalinga, a coastal kingdom ...

Emperor Ashoka, after witnessing the horrors of the Kalinga War, embraced Buddhism and dedicated his rule to promoting peace, tolerance, and compassion through moral edicts. These inscriptions ...

Saying that only by adopting Jainism, Maurya Shudra cannot be done. Ashoka adopted Buddhism after the Kalinga war. After this he focused his attention in the promotion of Dhamma. Here Dhamma meant ...

No Buddhist text links his conversion to the war and even Ashoka’s eulogists like Charles Allen agree that his conversion predated the Kalinga war. Moreover, he seems to have had links with ...

while also describing Ashoka’s transformation after the Kalinga War. However, it is probably the Chinese traveller Xuanzang who first found evidence of Buddhist settlements in Gujarat during his ...

No Buddhist text links his conversion to the war and even Ashoka’s eulogists like Charles Allen agree that his conversion predated the Kalinga war. Moreover, he seems to have had links with ...

Ashoka became a staunch Buddhist after witnessing the grave miseries that war can bring. After the Kalinga war, he declared no more wars and undertook to spread non-violence and dharma across the ...