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The 54 pages that link to Ashoka, each with the reason it gives.

• BuddhismRelated: His patronage helped Buddhism spread beyond its early communities.

• Buddhist councilsRelated: Theravada tradition places the third council under his patronage.

• SanghaRelated: Ashoka’s patronage helped Buddhism and its monastic communities expand across regions.

• Buddhist pilgrimageRelated: Tradition credits Ashoka with visiting Buddhist sites and building stupas that fostered pilgrimage.

• GandharaRelated: His reign linked Gandhara’s history to Mauryan governance and Buddhist patronage.

• Brahmi scriptRelated: His reign produced the earliest large, securely dated corpus of Brahmi inscriptions.

• Greco-Buddhist artRelated: His patronage helped establish Buddhism across regions later connected to Hellenistic kingdoms.

• The BuddhaRelated: His inscriptions provide early evidence for Buddhism’s spread and memory of the Buddha.

• Buddhist relicRelated: Tradition credits Ashoka with redistributing relics and building stupas across his realm.

• Edicts of AshokaRelated: He commissioned the inscriptions to communicate policies and ethical teachings across his empire.

• PataliputraRelated: His reign made Pataliputra a center of imperial government and Buddhist patronage.

• SanchiRelated: Tradition and archaeological evidence associate his reign with Sanchi’s earliest monumental patronage.

• Bodh GayaRelated: Buddhist tradition credits him with patronage of the original shrine at Bodh Gaya.

• StupaRelated: Tradition associates Ashoka with spreading relics and building stupas across his empire.

• Bodhi treeRelated: Traditions connect Ashoka’s Buddhist devotion with care for the Bodhi tree and its site.

• Buddhist architectureRelated: His patronage is associated with the spread of stupas and Buddhist pilgrimage sites.

• Early BuddhismRelated: His inscriptions provide early evidence for Buddhist institutions and royal patronage.

• KalingaRelated: His invasion brought Kalinga into the Mauryan Empire.

• Tamil-BrahmiRelated: His Brahmi inscriptions provide a major comparison for dating and explaining Tamil-Brahmi.

• TaxilaRelated: Tradition links Ashoka’s rule and patronage to Buddhist monuments in the Taxila region.

• PagodaRelated: Buddhist tradition associates Ashoka with the distribution of relics and the building of stupas.

• KharosthiRelated: His northwestern inscriptions include some of the earliest securely dated Kharosthi evidence.

• MegasthenesRelated: His inscriptions provide contemporary evidence from a later phase of the empire Megasthenes described.

• Silk Road transmission of BuddhismRelated: His patronage and missions strengthened Buddhism’s reach beyond the Indian subcontinent.

• BindusaraRelated: Ashoka succeeded Bindusara, though the circumstances of succession remain uncertain.

• DipavamsaRelated: The chronicle links Sri Lanka’s Buddhist beginnings to Ashoka’s missions and imperial network.

• Devanampiya TissaRelated: Tradition connects Ashoka’s Buddhist mission to Sri Lanka with Tissa’s conversion.

• Mahabodhi TempleRelated: Tradition associates Ashoka with an early shrine and pilgrimage at the enlightenment site.

• Sanchi StupaRelated: Tradition and inscriptions associate the earliest Sanchi monument with his reign.

• DharmaguptakaRelated: Later traditions associate the school’s early spread with Buddhist missions during Ashoka’s reign.

• Kingdom of KhotanRelated: Khotanese origin traditions linked the kingdom’s Buddhist past to Aśoka’s missionary legacy.

• MahāsāṃghikaRelated: Later Buddhist accounts associate his reign with councils and disputes, though their details are contested.

• ŚramaṇaRelated: His patronage helped Buddhist institutions grow across the subcontinent.

• Flag of IndiaRelated: The Chakra’s name and design evoke the legacy of Ashoka’s rule.

• History of BiharRelated: His reign connected Bihar’s imperial center with the expansion of Buddhism.

• Pillars of AshokaRelated: His authority and policies shaped the pillars’ placement, inscriptions, and message.

• Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinentRelated: His model of imperial support contrasts with the later erosion of Buddhist royal backing.

• Eastern religionsRelated: His patronage helped Buddhism spread across the Indian subcontinent and beyond.

• History of BuddhismRelated: His patronage helped Buddhism gain institutions and reach beyond India.

• ŚāriputraRelated: Aśokan inscriptions attest to the early circulation of Śāriputra’s name in Buddhist memory.