Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.

How does a ruler actually change the way the people think? Today's leader, Ashoka the Great, took on a vast empire and through the strength of his ideas began a tradition which leads directly to ...

Ashokan Edicts (Representative Image) In the historical archives, few figures stand as tall as Emperor Ashoka, the third ruler of the Maurya dynasty. It is a story chiseled in stone, well quite ...