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Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia

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 | #404030 in Books |  imusti |  2015-06-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.00 x5.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

 | Princeton University Press

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||34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting but controversial speculation about very early Buddhism|By Seth Zuihō Segall|Four centuries lie between the time the Buddha lived and the time the earliest known Gandhari and Pali Buddhist texts were committed to writing. Since religions are never static affairs, these texts undoubtedly diverged to some extent from the Buddha’s original teachings, but exact| |"The book offers a new and refreshing approach. It repeatedly calls for more work in various fields, and it should be hoped that scholars do not shy away from taking up the many challenges it raises."--Matthew Neale, Bulletin of the School of Oriental an

Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece.

Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Western philosophy to Gandhara, a country in Central Asi...

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