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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012 Introduction to Buddhism SURESH YADAV Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : 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. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SURESH YADAV, (2012). Introduction to Buddhism. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1278.pdf References :
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