Ashoka e le sue vittime: la Via della Pietà come cammino di riparazione
Ashoka and his Victims: The Way of Piety as a Path of Reparation

Summary/Abstract: Ashoka, Indian ruler of the Maurya dynasty, owes his conversion to Buddhism to the profound inner repentance following the bloody campaign to conquer the Indian kingdom of Kalinga (Orissa), which led him to an attempt a spiritual and material reparation that lasted a whole life and to the issuing of a series of norms (the Edicts) a re-elaboration of the Dharma in a parenetic and exhortative sense. His precedent will serve as a model for subsequent rulers, primarily Menander and Kanishka, who will refer more or less directly to these rules.

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