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Any good literature from or on Greco-Buddhism?

>> No.16493054
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16493054

>>16493032
Do you want to fuse the Elysian mysteries with Epicureanism?

>> No.16493065

>>16493032
Stoicism seems close, what are you looking for? Like a modern treatment?

>> No.16493199

>>16493065
I guess a modern treatment, and I would like to know if there are any surviving literature from greco-buddhists.

>> No.16493202

>>16493054
Not sure what you mean by this?

>> No.16493475

>>16493054
They are completely and totally incompatible.

>> No.16493526

>>16493475
Incompatibility is the conceit of the rigid.

t.Nietzschean Christian

>> No.16493537

>>16493054
>Elysian mysteries
wat

>> No.16493576

>>16493526
>Nietzschean Christian
>Nietzschean
lol

>> No.16493977

>>16493202
>>16493537
I beg pardon. * Eleusinian Mysteries, is what I meant.
My first spelling of it wasn’t accepted by spellcheck (Though it was correct) and it suggested Elysian. Which is where one goes in the afterlife. Eleusís is the township the mysteries take place, of course

>> No.16494867

>>16493199
They wrote nothing down

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>>16493576
>>Nietzschean Christian
>>Nietzschean
>lol
lol. Literally the first Niezcheans were protestant americans who fuzed it with christianity.

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>>16493032
>>16493199
>Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara: An Introduction with Selected Translations
>Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
Both these are good. The first being a general survey of Gandhara Buddhism/Culture with a few of the most important sutras from Gandhara translated. And the other contains the thesis that basically Pyrrhonism was Greek Buddhism and that you can't really separate Greek Pyrrhonism from Buddhism nor Asian Buddhism from Greek Pyrrhonism.
>Buddha > Pyrrho > Pyrrhonism > Nagarjuna > Mahayana

>> No.16495046

I've been studying this, The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara: An Introduction with Selected Translations (Classics of Indian Buddhism) by Richard Salomon with good luck. Hope that helps.

>> No.16495195

It still feels that pakis used to be Buddhists

>> No.16495202

>>16495195
*weird

>> No.16495248

>>16493032
The Milinda Panna, held as canon by all Buddhists, is a discussion between a monk and a Greek philosopher-king. It's an early text, and very long.

>>16494867
This isn't true at all, they wrote plenty. The problem is the whole "Muslims" thing.

>>16493065
There is incredibly little in common between Buddhism and Stoicism past all but the most basic of levels.

>> No.16495355

>>16495248
>This isn't true at all, they wrote plenty. The problem is the whole "Muslims" thing.
Actually it's the shitty equivalent of paper they used that's the problem

>> No.16495526

>>16494923
>>16495046
>>16495248
Thanks