Dear Rene,

> -- Ca. 250 BCE. The Buddhist king Asoka Maurya erects pillars throughout
> his kingdom and sends missionaries to foreign parts [snip] The king of
> Egypt who received Buddhist missionaries would have been Ptolemy II
> Philadelphus (d. 246 BCE), or possibly Ptolemy III Euergetes (d. 221).

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One wonders how many of these emissary missionaries went to Alexandria and
what happened to them. Did they stay and try to make converts as the edict
implies or did they give up and return back to India soon after ? I suppose
we shall never know ...

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge