Buddhism 2.0 & Asoka

Buddha taught that suffering can be escaped by following the eight-fold path. That is a prescription for ...

• penicillin

• catastrophe

• right living, right action, right intention

• how to win friends and influence people

In Buddha's Eight-fold Path, he teaches that one should be "in the moment", aware of the beauty of the world around you. This is called ...

• Right Mindfulness

• Naturophilia

• Tree-Hugging

• Sensitive

Buddha's teaching about Right Action says that a person should not harm living creatures. This means that most Buddhists are ...

• afraid to go outside for fear of harming something

• vegetarian

• bitten all over by mosquitoes

• animal rights activists

Before the Mauryan Empire, India was ...

• a free and equal society with no class distinctions

• a patchwork of small kingdoms always at war

• unpopulated

• a dictatorship ruled by one leader

The Mauryan conquests were brutal.They brought all of India under their control, but in doing so ...

• they interrupted important meetings and other business

• they failed to create a good water and sewer system

• they prevented farmers from working, causing a famine

• they killed tens of thousands of people

The Mauryan Emperor Asoka saw the death and destruction his conquests had caused, and ...

• he danced around and cheered

• he thought it would be very expensive to rebuild

• went on with his conquering anyway

• he was filled with remorse, became a Buddhist and renounced violence