Buddhist culture and pre-Christian Greece Buddhism and the Roman world




from time of jesus or after: statue of siddartha gautama preaching, in greco-buddhist style of gandhara, present-day pakistan


by time of jesus, teachings of buddha had spread through of india , penetrated sri lanka, central asia , china. display similarities christian moral precepts of more 5 centuries later; sanctity of life, compassion others, rejection of violence, confession , emphasis on charity , practice of virtue.


will durant, noting emperor ashoka sent missionaries, not elsewhere in india , sri lanka, syria, egypt , greece, speculated in 1930s may have helped prepare ground christian teaching.








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