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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012

Introduction to Buddhism

SURESH YADAV

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years. Perhaps the most significant of these began in 334 BC, early in the history of Buddhism, when the Macedonian king Alexander the Great conquered most of Central Asia. The Seleucids and successive kingdoms established an important Hellenistic influence in the area, which interacted with the Buddhism that had b e e n i n t r o d u c e d f r o m I n d i a t o p r o d u c e G r e c o - B u d d h i s m . In the Christian era, Buddhist ideas would periodically filter into Europe via the Middle East.

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SURESH YADAV, (2012). Introduction to Buddhism. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1278.pdf

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