RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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after years of wandering and searching for the truth
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after seeing poverty and suffering outside the palace walls
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after seeing much violence and participating in it
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after meeting Buddha
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to his own accounts, Ashoka conquered the Kalinga country (modern Orissa state) in the eighth year of his reign. The sufferings that the war inflicted on the defeated people moved him to such remorse that he renounced armed conquests. It was at this time that he came in touch with Buddhism and adopted it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The furious Ruler Ashoka was changed into a calm and peaceful emperor after the bloody war with Kalinga, and he became a Buddhist patron. According to A. L. Basham, a notable Indologist, Ashoka’s personal faith became Buddhism after the Kalinga War, if not earlier.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ashoka’s 13th Rock Edict describes the Kalinga war vividly. In about 263 BC Ashoka converted to Buddhism. Moggaliputta Tissa, a Buddhist monk, became his mentor. Under Ashoka reign, the Third Council of Buddhism organized in Pataliputra under the presidency of Moggaliputta Tissa.