What's the difference between Ashoka and Qin Shihuang?

Ashoka's life is legendary. He is the third monarch of the Indian dynasty and the greatest and most influential monarch in Indian history. Ashoka is also a Buddhist. He believed in Buddhism all his life. When he became a monarch, he led the Indian people to believe in Buddhism and established Buddhism as a national law. Ashoka's achievements in his life are very rich. In the first half of his life, he struggled to rule India, reunifying India by force, and struggled for most of his life before ruling India. This is also an outstanding achievement in the election campaign. In the last battle, the situation was very tragic, with 6.5438+0.5 million people captured and 6.5438+0.5 million people killed. After that, Ashoka unified India, but after Ashoka unified India, he stopped his territorial expansion.

Asoka believed in Buddhism all his life, especially after India's reunification, he began to manage India's internal affairs and economy without expanding its territory. In the second half of his life, Ashoka mainly devoted himself to the management of India. Asoka played a very important role in India's internal management, and he proposed tolerance and non-violence. Buddhism has also been established as the state religion, so that India still believes in Buddhism, and Indian temples have become the leader of india tourism. Although Ashoka admired Buddhism, he did not oppose the development of other religions. In addition, Asoka tried to manage India, and India's economy, foreign trade and domestic development were constantly improving. In this case, he succeeded in becoming the monarch of India for 4 1 year. Ashoka's life is legendary. As one of the most influential kings in India, Ashoka's rule also had an extremely important influence on the development of India in later generations.

When it comes to the relationship between Ashoka and Sakyamuni, many complicated things emerge slowly. Buddha Sakyamuni was a figure in the first 565 years. There is a lot of time difference between him and Ashoka, so there is no substantive connection between them. Their connection is mainly in Buddhism. Sakyamuni was born in ancient India, under the Himalayas, and his name means "Sage of Sakyamuni". The reason why he said this is that since he was born, he was told by fortune tellers that he would make great achievements in the future, so he got the name. When Sakyamuni grew up, he was indeed very merciful to the world as predicted, and even did not see that the world had suffered a little. Later, he met a monk. At that time, Sakyamuni felt that becoming a monk would be peaceful and there would be no pain. After that, he began to become a monk. After slow penance, he began to admire Buddhism everywhere until he died at the age of 80.

Ashoka was also influenced by Buddhism since childhood, almost as kind as Sakyamuni. The biggest connection between them is Buddhism. According to legend, when Ashoka built the stupa, he was helped by the Buddha of Buddhism at that time. King Ashoka also fasted on bathing to get rid of other thoughts, and then he did a series of things on the belief and propaganda of Buddhism. History affectionately called Ashoka the reincarnation of Sakyamuni, and then fought. When Ashoka unified India, he didn't expand the land, just because he didn't see too many killings, so he didn't continue to fight for more land and began to manage his own dynasty. In the subsequent management, he also carried out the policy of treating others with virtue and adhered to the principle of avoiding killing, which won unanimous praise from the people.

Ashoka is the third generation king of the peacock dynasty, the first empire in Indian history for more than 2,300 years. As the emperor of India, Ashoka is a famous figure who created national history in India and influenced its national culture for a long time. His influence on history ranked first among the ancient Indian emperors at that time. On the basis of ancestors, Qin Shihuang ended the feudal lords system more than 2,200 years ago and established the first centralized feudal empire in the history of China. The contrast between Ashoka and Qin Shihuang is as follows.

Ashoka and Qin Shihuang are equivalent to two emperors who brought long-term influence to later generations at the same time. They are two representatives of ancient oriental civilization. Before Ashoka established the Peacock Dynasty, India was similar to that of China in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, except that it had been invaded twice before. The unification of Ashoka is not very stable. His peacock dynasty had great independence in politics, economy and culture. Unlike the unified situation of China in the Han Dynasty, there was a temporary partial unification. Even if Ashoka's later policies were very loose, this country that was unified by force could not last long. After the death of King Ashoka, it soon collapsed, and Qin was "single-handedly destroyed" after the death of Qin Shihuang.

Both of them were brutal and belligerent, but the legalist thought pursued by Qin Shihuang was eventually replaced by the Confucian thought of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty as the state religion of China, while Ashoka believed in Buddhism and established it as the state religion, which made great contributions to the prosperity and development of Buddhism in India. Ashoka and Qin Shihuang are both equivalent to "one emperor through the ages". Ashoka converted to Buddhism in his later years and laid down his butcher's knife, while Qin Shihuang believed in Legalism and pursued immortality. Both seem to be standing at the peak of their own rights, seeking some kind of spiritual sustenance.