Information Unable to Cover in Discussion Section

In Tuesdays discussion section I wasn't able to get through everything. I imagine it will be the same for my Wedensday section so I am posting what I didn't get through. I will update it later if there is other information I'm not able to get through in my Wednsday section.

Basically, we got all the way up to Ashoka. What's important about Ashoka is that he conguored a lot of what is now India (except the south) and used Buddhism to try and rule. He put up lots of pillars exhorting people to follow Buddhist morality and on some he explained that this was because he felt bad after killing a lot of people in the Kalinga war. However, it seems like he also used Buddhism to encourage people in his country to be peaceful, most notably the forest tribes. Even though he conquored a lot, there were places inside his empire's borders where there was resistance, so he hoped to use Buddhism to end that resistance. He also used Buddhism to strengthen his foreign policy (he sent Buddhist missionaries to Thailand and Burma). Going back to the pillars he had them inscribed in various languages so as to reach as wide a group of people as possible as his empire included people who spoke many different languages.

Professor Harlow actually goes through this pretty clearly in the notes so I dont' think I need to add anything more. One last thing, in section A3 (the page after the Ashoka page) there is some information on the four objectives of humanity. I want to stress that it is possible to follow more than one objective at a time. For example, a householder should work for wealth and power but is still allowed some kama. Students however should focus on dharma and not be distracted by kama.

Good luck on the test!