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India and the Greek World

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It would seem that ancient Greece and India are so far apart—not just in distance, but in philosophy, culture, and religion—that it's virtually impossible for them to have anything in common. This book proves the opposite, and in all of these areas: Greek philosophy absorbed Indian skepticism, Pythagoras and Plato absorbed the doctrine of the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis), the Gandhara Greeks—descendants of the Greco-Macedonian conquerors—were the first to reveal images of the Buddha in human form, and the early Byzantine theologian and philosopher St. John of Damascus drew on the Life of the Buddha and Indian sutras to create his moralizing tale of Barlaam and Joasaph, the Indian prince.

While Alexander the Great's campaign in India is fairly well known, the history of the Indo-Greek kingdoms remains a complete blank in Russian historiography. To the best of the author's ability, this work eliminates it, and pays special attention to the wise and powerful king Menander I (in Indian, Milinda), whose conversion to Buddhism is confirmed by Plutarch, and the book "Questions of Milinda", containing his conversations with Indian sages, has firmly entered the canon of Buddhist sacred scripture, second in authority only to the "Tripitaka".
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