Thanks Rene,
BTW which of your published writings (journal article or book) do you recommend me in this area, or related area?
Sukhi
Piya
--- rsalm <
rjs@...> wrote:
> Dear Piya,
> I'd be honored if you use this information with your students. I
> wish them the best, and thank you for asking.
> In the Dhamma,
> Rene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piya Tan
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pali] Early East-West connections
>
>
> Dear Rene,
>
> If you remember, you sent a follow-up more detailed mail on Early
> East-West connections. I seek your permission to use these notes as
> handout in my forthcoming class on the History of Buddhism.
>
> If you like, please let me have some relevant CV so that I can
> include in the credit.
>
> Sukhi,
>
> Piya
>
> rsalm wrote:
>
> > Dear Piya, Stephen, John, Ong Yong Peng, et al,
> >
> >
> >
> > <All this is very interesting indeed. If you have references,
> these information would be even more valuable for follow up study.
> Sukhi [Pali: May you be happy!]Piya >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your good wishes, Piya, and may you also have all
> happiness. For your files, here are briefly some sources. When I
> don't give the exact numbers, I haven't checked them yet myself!
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Ctesias is physician and prisoner to the Persian court (c.
> 400 BCE). Wrote a history of Persia (excerpts in Photius).
> >
> > -- Aristotle [b. 384 BCE], Magicus
> >
> > -- Clearchus of Soli [ca. 350 BCE], On Sleep
> >
> > -- Alexander the Great [326 BCE] conquers NW India
> >
> > -- Pyrrho of Elis, founder of philosophical skepticism,
> accompanies Alexander the Great to India. [Bibl: Diogenes Laertius,
> "Pyrrho" from his "Lives"; Pyrrhonian Skepticism, ed. W.
> Sinnott-Armstrong, Oxford 2004; "Pyrrho and India" by E. Flintoff,
> in PHRONESIS, vol. XXV, no. 2 (1980) pp. 88-108]
> >
> > -- Megasthenes, Indika (in Strabo). Megasthenes was sent ca. 300
> BCE to India as Ambassador from Seleucus I to Chandragupta
> Maurya. (see Almond p. 236)
> >
> > -- Ashoka [III BCE] sends missionaries to the West (certainly
> including Alexandria)
> >
> > -- Sotion [ca. 200 BCE], Succession of the Philosophers
> >
> > -- Alexander Polyhistor [c. 100 BCE] (In Cl. Alex.,
> Strom.3.60.2-4) Also dependant on Megasthenes?
> >
> > -- Strabo [64 BC- 24 CE] (Geogr. 15:59-60) Cited by Cl.
> Alex.(see Almond p. 236)
> >
> > -- Zarmaros [31 BCE] Brahmin priest, immolates self in Athens.
> [Koester I/178]
> >
> > -- Philo [10 BC-50 CE], Quod Omnis, 73-4; 92-7 re: Calanus.
> >
> > -- Josephus [37 - 100 CE] (Apion 1:179) (War 7.8.7, re: Speech
> of Eleazar at Masada)
> >
> > -- Apollonius of Tyana [I CE] (see Philostratus below)
> >
> > -- Plutarch [46-119 CE], Alexander 65
> >
> > -- Pantaenus, Clement's teacher at Alexandria, goes to India ca.
> 150 CE.] Eusebius (Hist. 5:10)
> >
> > -- Clement of Alexandria [175-225 CE], Strom. 1:71.5,6 (see
> Almond p. 236, 239)
> >
> > -- Bardaisan (Bardesanes) [154-222 CE] cited by Porphyry. Gives
> "first description in the West of Buddhist monasticism" (Almond
> 238).
> >
> > -- Philostratus [170-245 CE], Life of Apollonius of Tyana
> (6:4-22).
> >
> > -- Porphyry [234-305 CE], De Abstin. 4:17-18 (re: Bardesanes).
> Porphyry states that on one occasion at Edessa, Bardaisan [b. 154
> CE] interviewed an Indian deputation which had been sent to the
> Roman emperor, and questioned them as to the nature of Indian
> religion. See discussion in Almond 238.
> >
> > -- Diogenes Laertius [fl ca 250 CE], Lives 1:1-11
> >
> >
> >
> > -----------
> >
> > Modern bibl:
> >
> > P. C. Almond, "Buddism in the West: 300 BC- AD 400," in Journal
> of Religious History, vol 14 (1986-7), Sydney Univ. Press.
> >
> > A. Dihle, Antike und Orient, 1984 (German)
> >
> > H. Koester, History and Literature of Early Christianity, 2
> vols. (1982)
> >
> > E. Lengyel, Asoka the Great: India's Royal Missionary (1969)
> >
> > D. Scott, "Ashokan missionary expansion," in RELIGION, vol XV
> (1985), pp. 131-141
> >
> > Other authors: J. Andre; U.P. Arora; V. Begley; L. Casson; A.
> Dahlquist; J. D. Derret; S. Doshi; K. Karttunen; J.I. Miller; P.
> Curtin; H. Rawlinson; J. Thorley; J.W. Sellar; M. Wheeler.
> >
> >
> >
> > Santi (peace) to all,
> >
> > Rene
> >
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