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Alexander the Great and the Buddha: A Cross-Cultural Evolution

Rebecca Wong 16 January 2025

Rebecca Wong’s interview with Prof. Georgios Halkias reveals striking mutual influences between Buddhism and the Hellenistic legacy

Fig. 2. Agonized monk, Vardak, Ghandhara. Image courtesy of Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi

Buddhist Iconography Along the Silk Road with Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi, Part Two – The Land Route

Wendy Yu 3 September 2019

The second in a series on the spread of early Buddhism as…

Discobolus, the disc thrower. Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze original by the sculptor Myron. Image courtesy the Vatican Museum

Immortality and Invincibility, Part Two: Notions of the Body, Concrete and Subtle

Joseph Houseal 1 June 2019

Conceiving the human form in Buddhist and Taoist thought