Buddha and Asoka are a lot alike in the way they came to believe in something. They both saw people suffering and felt the need to make a change. This has an impact on how they relate but also shows their most differences. Buddha would like the fact that Asoka was giving and shared some of his wealth with the less fortunate and he would also agree with Asoka understanding he was wrong about his mindset of other lands. In Buddha’s teachings and Asoka’s Pillar Edicts they believed compassion, purity, and truth. Buddha believed that “ignorance is the root of all evil” and Asoka has a slightly ignorant mentality (Buddha 3.12). One thing he would not agree with was Asoka’s way of telling people about Buddhism. Asoka wanted everyone to accept his
