Sunday, July 6, 2025

Ancient Greeks converted to Buddhism

(Religion for Breakfast) Greece is very far away from the heartland of Early Buddhism in proto-India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan (ancient Gandhara). But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact (and fusion) in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism.
  • 00:00 A Greco-Bactrian Buddhist Inscription
  • 1:41 The Hellenistic "Far East"
  • 4:10 Pyrrho: A Buddhist for Greece?
  • 7:42 Ashoka and his Dharma Conquest
  • 10:23 King Menander [King Milinda]: The Most Famous Greek Buddhist
  • 13:26 Greco-Buddhist Art of Gandhara
  • 15:23 Syncretism?
  • 16:44 [Sponsor:] Nebula!
Indie creators being awesome Thumbnail art by @hotcyder Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images and Reuters

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