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Greco-Buddhism
Sign in to savethumb|Gautama Buddha in Greco-Buddhist style, 1st–2nd century AD, [[Gandhara (Peshawar basin, modern day Pakistan).]]
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26 sectionsContents
- Historical outline
- Cultural interaction
- Alexander the Great in Bactria and India (331–325 BC)
- Mauryan Empire (322–183 BC)
- Greek presence in Bactria (325–125 BC)
- Indo-Greek Kingdom and Buddhism (180 BC – 10 AD)
- Coinage
- Cities
- Scriptures
- Kushan empire (1st–3rd century AD)
- Philosophical influences
- Pyrrhonism
- Cynicism
- Cyrenaicism
- Artistic influences
- Anthropomorphic representation of the Buddha
- Hellenized Buddhist pantheon
- Exchanges
- Proselytism in the East
- Greco-Buddhism in the West
- Buddhism and Christianity
- Reception
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Gautama Buddha in Greco-Buddhist style, 1st–2nd century AD, [[Gandhara (Peshawar basin, modern day Pakistan).]]
thumb|upright=1.5|Silk Road transmission of Buddhism|Buddhist expansion in Asia: [[Mahayana Buddhism first entered the Chinese Empire (Han dynasty) through Silk Road during the Kushan Era. The overland and maritime "Silk Roads" were interlinked and complementary, forming what scholars have called the "great circle of Buddhism".]]