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Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)

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Pali Buddhist chronicles record a council at Pataliputra under Moggaliputta Tissa around 250 BCE and the sending of missions to Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Gandhara and beyond, including Ashoka's son Mahinda to Sri Lanka. These claims come from later Buddhist textual tradition rather than from Ashoka's own inscriptions, and their historicity is debated; the event is recorded here as what the tradition holds, marked uncertain.

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  1. Story
  2. Pali Buddhist chronicles record a council at Pataliputra under Moggaliputta Tissa around 250 BCE and the sending of missions to Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Gandhara and beyond, including Ashoka's son Mahinda to Sri Lanka. These claims come from later Buddhist textual tradition rather than from Ashoka's own inscriptions, and their historicity is debated; the event is recorded here as what the tradition holds, marked uncertain.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Buddhism
  5. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  6. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  7. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  8. Connections
  9. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  10. Buddhism
  11. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  12. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  13. Buddhism
  14. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
  15. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  16. Sogdian merchant networks
  17. Silk Road religious corridor
  18. Xuanzang
  19. Mogao Caves
  20. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  21. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  22. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  23. Gandhara
  24. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  25. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
  26. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  27. Buddhism attested in Han China
  28. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
  29. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  30. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
  31. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  32. Malacca (Melaka)
  33. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  34. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  35. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
  36. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
  37. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
  38. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  39. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  40. Evidence
  41. Ashoka issued proclamations of dhamma in Greek and Aramaic at Kandahar around 260 BCE, addressing borderland populations in their own languages; the wider corpus comprises about 33 inscriptions in Prakrit dialects in Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts.
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