Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. The individual chapters of this book provide an analysis of the main textual, archaeological, and numismatic sources for Greco-Buddhist relations and draw upon philological and historical methods as well as postcolonial and sociologi...