Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
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.
Uncertain — sources disagree, or the dating is contested. Stated here, not resolved.
Subjects
- Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya) · person · South Asia · not located
- Buddhism · belief_system · not located
- Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism · phenomenon · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription of Ashoka (Greek and Aramaic)
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.
Discovered at Chehel Zina, Kandahar, Afghanistan; published in the standard Ashokan epigraphic corpora · c. 260 BCE · Partly verified
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, Chehel Zina, Kandahar; see the corpus of the Edicts of Ashoka (33 inscriptions on rocks, pillars and cave walls) — summary entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_Bilingual_Rock_Inscription
Recorded on Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
- Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
- Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
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