The Biographical Scripture of King Asoka : translated from the Chinese of Saṃghapāla (Taishō, Volume 50, Number 2043)
Translated by Li Rongxi, this biographical text relates how King Asoka unified India for the first time in the third century BCE and, after his conversion, sent emissaries throughout his kingdom to spread Buddhism.
A Message on the Publication of the English Tripitaka / Yehan Numata --
Editorial Foreword / Shoyu Hanayama --
Publisher's Foreword / Philip Yampolsky --
Translator's Introduction / Li Rongxi --
Ch. I. The Causes of His Birth --
Ch. II. The Causes of Seeing Upagupta --
Ch. III. The Causes of Making Offerings to the Bodhi Tree --
Ch. IV. The Causes of Kunala --
Ch. V. The Causes of Offering Half an Amra Fruit to the Sangha --
Ch. VI. The Causes of the Buddha's Prediction Concerning Upagupta --
Ch. VII. The Causes of the Transmission of the Dharma-pitaka by the Five Disciples of the Buddha --
Ch. VIII. The Causes of Upagupta's Disciples.
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