Ashoka established a government position called 'Dharma Commissioners'—officials who traveled around major towns and cities helping to establish Buddhism, demonstrating institutional infrastructure for Buddhist missionary activity in Hellenistic regions

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Ashoka called his efforts a Dharma conquest and even references a special rank within his government called Dharma Commissioners presumably some sort of government official who traveled around helping to establish Buddhism in major towns and cities

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