[mairdie]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[mairdie]

And on a different note of Alexander the Great, there’s his diary of his campaign found in an attic.

“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)

New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Journal of an Asiatic Expedition
Vol. IV No. II; Feb 1793; p.98; by R

https://youtu.be/ByGN29_5VRQ

[waterhill]

Buddha is dead, Jesus is risen..

[Fai Mao]

There are far more differences than similarities.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember reading something about this decades ago in LIFE magazine. They showed a small statue of Buddha that resembled Alexander the Great.

[ThanhPhero]

We now know there were Buddhists in Anatolia during the Byzantine era and before and there were Buddhists scattered about in central Asia and points west back to 300 BC or so. Recent discoveries in Egypt are Buddhist statuettes from the time of Alexander and the early Ptolomeys

[Candor7]

Very interesting piece.

"Did Buddhism Influence Greek Stoicism?"

It sure did, thanks to Ashoka Maharaja, one of the ancestral sovereigns of the Kingdom of Shambhala,the others being China's Yung Lo,Japan's Shotoku Taishi, and Tibet's Gesar of Ling. Ashoka prosecuted horrible wars, which resulted in thousands of deaths and horrible blood baths.He was so abhorred by thehuman suffering that he renounced war and created an empire based upon enlightened principles.

These principles were inscribed on stone columns set up across India.

One of Ashoka's Columns:

Ashoka Maharaja:

Pillar Edicts of Ashoka in English

[FormerFRLurker]

Very interesting read, thanks.

[antceecee]

Bookmark! Thank you for sharing!

[Cronos]

both Stoicism and Cynicism post-date similar thoughts in northern India .