The Greeks in India

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Clive
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The Greeks in India

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Buddhism has an idea, the middle way. Paul allegedly wrote of moderation in all things. The famous statues blown up by the Taliban in Afghanistan of the Buddha are clearly Greek influenced.

The archaeology of a 3500 year old boat found in Dover, and related finds across Europe - the bronze age - shows it was sea going and was transporting tin (from Cornwall) that was used all over Europe and Egypt, when the pyramids were being built. The Illiad in fact refers to the transition to the Iron Age.

Archaeology is continually looking for connections and relationships.

Why do I get the impression people who study religions play down the interactions?

What was the effects of Alexander going to India on Judaism? How did the Greek ideas, The Zoroastrian, the Jewish, the Buddhist and Hindu ideas change each other?

I propose the interactions are critically important, like the translation of the Septuagint.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka

Multilingual inscriptions during the rule of Ashoka: 269 BCE to 232 BCE (a century after Alexander's conquests)

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A "cobbler of fables" [Augustine]; "Leucius is the disciple of the devil" [Decretum Gelasianum]; and his books "should be utterly swept away and burned" [Pope Leo I]; they are the "source and mother of all heresy" [Photius]
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Zeus plus Krishna = Buddha.

Buddha + YHWH + Zeus = Christ

Christ + YHWH + Zoroaster = Mohammed
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My favorite bit about that is not anything so grandiose. Alexander the Great's entourage discovered "gymnosophists" ("naked philosophers") there, ascetics who had worn little or no clothing.
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lpetrich wrote:My favorite bit about that is not anything so grandiose. Alexander the Great's entourage discovered "gymnosophists" ("naked philosophers") there, ascetics who had worn little or no clothing.
Jains?

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