Ashoka Missioners

　　According to the Pali Chronicles, at the end of the Third Council which was held in the seventeenth year of Ashoka” coronation, under the presidency of Arahant Monggaliputta Tissa, it was decided to send competent Arahants to nine different places to propagate the Teachings of the Buddha.

　　The names of the missioners and the places are as follows: -