Greek Buddha : Pyrrho's encounter with early Buddhism in Central Asia /

Pyrrho of Elis accompanied Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Graeco-Macedonian invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC, and while there met with teachers of Early Buddhism. Greek Buddha shows how Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of...

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Hlavní autor: Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2015]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1h4mhwc
Obsah:
  • Scythian Philosophy: Pyrrho, the Persian Empire, and India
  • Pyrrho's Thought: Beyond Humanity
  • No Differentiations: The Earliest Attested Forms of Buddhism
  • Jade Yoga and Heavenly Dharma: Buddhist Thought in Classical Age China and India
  • Greek Enlightenment: What the Buddha, Pyrrho, and Hume Argue Against
  • Pyrrho's Teacher: The Buddha and His Awakening
  • The Classical Testimonies of Pyrrho's Thought
  • Are Pyrrhonism and Buddhism Both Greek in Origin?
  • On the Early Indian Inscriptions.