Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Religion and Spirituality > Buddhism > History > India New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Ashoka 273-232 BCE - Under the reign of Ashoka Buddhism spread to Syria, Egypt, Macedonia, Central Asia, Burma. For propagation of Buddhism, he inscribed edicts on rocks and pillars at places where people could easily read them. These pillars and rocks are still found in India, spreading their message of love and peace for the last two thousand years. The national emblem of India is the Ashoka pillar at Sarnath, and the "Dharma Chakra" on that Pillar adorns the Indian flag.   Ashoka's Edicts - Asoka, an exceptionally cruel and ruthless prince who had many of his brothers killed in order to seize the throne, was dramatically converted to Buddhism and who ruled wisely and justly for the rest of his life. Historians did not take the legands about him to be true, until Ashoka's edicts were found and deciphered by archeologists. These are translations of these archeological findings.   Buddhist Ethics and Social Criticism - Essay on the development of Buddhist philosophy in India, including social criticism, polemics, personal ethics and morality and theories of human suffering and happiness.   Decline and Fall of Buddhism in India - An account of the fall of the Buddhist kings, the resurgance of Hinduism and the entry of Islam to India.   Political and Social Ethics of India - The Magadha and Maurya empires and Alexander's conquests in the North. By Sanderson Beck   The Edicts of King Asoka - The great Buddhist King Asoka's edicts are to be found scattered in more than thirty places throughout India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them are written in Brahmi script, but one in Afghanistan is written in Aramaic and Greek. Asoka's edicts comprise the earliest decipherable corpus of written documents from India.   The Mission of Alexander the Great - Argues that an Asokan Pillar at Delhi is an altar of Alexander and that an Indian conspiracy assassinated him. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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