The Sacred Books of the East

"The Sacred Books of the East", Volume 35, presents the first part of the "Questions of King Milinda" (Milindapañha), a foundational work of Buddhist literature. This volume records a series of sophisticated dialogues between the Indo-Greek King Menander I-referred to as Milinda-and the Buddhist sage Nagasena. Set in the second century BCE, these conversations capture a rare and influential cross-cultural encounter between Hellenistic inquiry and Indian spiritual wisdom.

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