Greek Monks and Persians in Ancient India

Brian and I respond to a talk given by venerable Ajahn Sona of Birken Forest Monastery, in which he discusses relatively new evidence that there were plenty of Greeks and Persians in northern India in the Buddha's time, and that Greeks apparently had a significant influence on the formation of early Buddhism.

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