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Greek influence on Buddhism

Started by Al Billings · 10 months ago

From http://www.silk-road.com/artl/gandhara.shtml.
GANDHARA SCHOOL
By Irma Marx
The Hellenistic influence was nowhere more dramatic than in Gandhara, a term now used to describe the school of semi-classical sculptures of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early centuries of our era. G ... Continue reading »

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  • Yvonne

    1 year ago

    ... and as evidenced by the Questions of King Milinda, surely there was a Buddhist influence on the Greeks, too?
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  • Al Billings

    1 year ago

    Well, King Milinda was Greek in the same way that I am English. He spoke a Greek language and his ancestors were Greek. He probably had some trade contacts with Greece but how much Buddhism trickled back to Greece eventually is hard to say. We know that Buddhists visited Alexandria but I'm not sure beyond that.
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