 Tolerance—even of intolerance?If his message was a critique of violence, how did it come to be championed by the most successfully violent autocrats of ancient India?These are questions that begin to surface among the Buddha's followers, fearfully and then angrily, to be viciously debated even as Dhamma rises to glorious imperial patronage, a patronage that will sustain it for over a millennium and reach it to half the world's populace."