And he also put up pillars all throughout his empire that proclaimed his benevolent rule and said he was going to rule through something he called dhamma, which according to one of the pillars went like this, proper behavior towards servants and employees, respect for mother and father, generosity to friends, companions, relations, brahmins and ascetics, and not killing living beings. So those are not individualistic goals like we see in Hinduism. They're relational goals like we're going to see next week when we study Confucianism. And that's one of the reasons why Ashoka's empire wasn't actually very Buddhist, because ultimately Buddhism isn't that concerned with the order of the world. Buddhism argues that the fulfillment of the self will lead to the order of the world. In the end, Ashoka's empire didn't outlast him by much, and soon enough Buddhism declined in India, almost to the point of extinction. Part 8, the big finish.