The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s8.3
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s8.3
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2. See H. Bechert, “Einige Fragen der Religionssoziologie und Struktur des südasiatischen Buddhismus,”*Internationales Jahrbuch für Religionssoziolgie* 4 (1968): 251–95, esp. 260f. The starting point of formal relations between the temporal power and the sangha was the momentous purge of the internally divided sangha by the Maurya king Aśoka (see H. Bechert, “Aśoka’s Schismenedikt und der Begriff *sanghabheda*,” *Weiner Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und Ostasians* 5 [1961]: 18–52.