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The Asokan Missions

A reading of the first translation of the Extended Mahāvaṁsa chapters XII-XIV, which describe the missions sent out during King Asoka's time to bring the Dhamma to the outlying districts and countries. Text can be found here . There is also a video about Asoka and the Missions here .

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Chapters

Asoka's Birth

1:35

Asoka's Family

1:50

Asoka's Ascension

3:10

The Conversion of Asoka 1

2:55

Asoka's Previous Birth Story

2:49

The Conversion of Asoka 2

4:32

King Asoka sees the Buddha

1:33

The Going Forth of Asoka's Brother and Nephew

3:20

Building the 84000 Monasteries

2:03

The Going Forth of Mahinda and Sanghamitta

5:43

Tissa and Sumitta's Story

3:17

Decline of the Dispensation

1:34

Murder in the Monastery

5:20

The King's Dream

3:23

The Partridge Birth Story

5:14

Holding the Third Council

3:54

Summary

1:43

Majjhantika in Kasmira Gandhara

4:07

More Missions

2:37

Sona and Uttara in Suvannabhumi

2:57

To Vedisa

1:45

Asokas Children in Avanti

1:01

Determining the Time

1:32

Arrival in Lanka

1:54

The Meeting

3:09

The Questions

2:32

Ordination and Teaching

4:12

Entering the Town

6:23

The Great Cloud Monastery and Queen Anula

6:51

Requesting the Nuns and the Bodhi Tree

5:58

Festivities for the Bodhi Tree

2:48

The Nuns and the Bodhi Tree set out for Lanka

6:15

Reception in Lanka

2:27

The Nuns and the Nunneries

5:24

The Passing of King Asoka

2:33

The Passing of King Devanampiyatissa

5:32

The Passing of Arahat Mahinda

3:56

The Passing of Arahat Sanghamitta

1:50

The Passing of Other Elders

2:07