TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckwith,Christopher I.
TI  - Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
SN  - 9781400866328
AV  - B613 .B43 2015 
U1  - 186.1186/.1 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Pyrrhon,
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - History
KW  - To ca. 100 A.D
KW  - Influence
KW  - Buddhism and philosophy
KW  - Pyrrhon, of Elis
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; On Transcription, Transliteration, and Texts; Abbreviations; PROLOGUE Scythian Philosophy: Pyrrho, the Persian Empire, and India; CHAPTER 1 Pyrrho's Thought: Beyond Humanity; CHAPTER 2 No Differentiations: The Earliest Attested Forms of Buddhism; CHAPTER 3 Jade Yoga and Heavenly Dharma: Buddhist Thought in Classical Age China and India; CHAPTER 4 Greek Enlightenment: What the Buddha, Pyrrho, and Hume Argue Against; EPILOGUE Pyrrho's Teacher: The Buddha and His Awakening; APPENDIX A The Classical Testimonies of Pyrrho's Thought; APPENDIX B Are Pyrrhonism and Buddhism Both Greek in Origin?APPENDIX C On the Early Indian Inscriptions; Endnotes; References; Index
N2  - 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 Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece. Identifying Pyrrho's basic teachings with those of Early Buddhism, Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Greek philosophy to Gandhāra, a country in Central Asia and northwestern India. Using a range of primary sources, he syste
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