The Questions of Milinda

Ancient Greek Buddhism is highlighted by two main points: the sculptural depiction of the Buddha and the textual report on King Menandros’ becoming a Buddhist adept. The 304 questions to King Menandros , the Milinda panha, is a dialogue between the Greek sovereign of Hellenized Asia and the Venerable Nagasena.  This resulted in the ruler’s acceptance of the Dharma as a lay disciple who subsequently had Buddhism disseminated throughout Indo-Greece. His guru’s guru was by the way a Greek, the renowned Dharmarakshita, a given which is illustrative for the Greeks’ embracement of Buddhism in the Hellenized territories. Twenty-six Greek kings after Menandros were Buddhist. The Milindapanha is a “reader’s digest” covering the most important Buddhist themes: 

(1) The 4-Ennobling Realities, (2) The 8-Fold Balancing Practice. (3) The 3-Empirical Marks of Existence, (4) The 3-Poisons, (5) The state/trait of Nirvana, (6) The notion of Karma, (7) The 5-Skandhas (psychological modalities), (8) The provisional self and ultimate not-self, (9) The Dependent Origination hypothesis, (10) The smallest units of experience: dharmas, (11) The 6th Sense: the mind’s eye, (12) The 12-Meditations themes, (13) The 4-Foundations of Mindfulness, (14) The 4-Immeasurables and (15) The 24-Patthanas: the functional/conditional relations between Karma, skandhas and dharmas.

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