Argument over on r/buddhism about the interaction between Buddhist culture and philosophy, and Alexander the Great bringing the Mediteranean world further east. There is enough evidence that Buddhist thought found its way into Greek life to some degree, Pyrro, for example, has some stuff very similar to some Madhyamika stuff. Zen has a myth of its history going back all the way 2500 years ago to Siddhartha. Even if Zen as a seperate study and practice had basically no development for a long time after that, do people on this sub think there were real underpinnings? And if so, to what degree do we think such underpinnings made their way west into Greek culture?
Submitted July 01, 2017 at 04:39AM by Marvinkmooneyoz http://ift.tt/2sqyd2Q
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