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Were Buddhist and Ancient Greek thought similar?

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If you want to show more similarities, you will arrive at them just like you would if you were to find only contrasts and differences. It also depends whether you want to find similarities in rational philosophy or mystical, which also often overlapped in the case of Greeks not to mention Buddhism, which is like an overlap in itself. read more

Metempsychosis meaning a travel of the souls both in Greek philosophy and similar for Buddhism. Prayer of quiet, hesychia in Greek corresponds to smadhi. The ancient Japanese theater is almost identical to classical Greek drama theatre. Greek "Know thyself" and the Buddhist internal journey. read more

I'd have to agree with Orontes. Any similarities between Buddhism and ancient Greek philosophy are only superficial. One could say that some ideas of Plato, the Stoics, Diogenes, etc., share a resemblance to Buddhism, but the underlying philosophy is remarkedly different. read more

Looking at it the other way, the transfer of ideas certainly happened the other way around. The Questions of King Milander detail a dialog between a Buddhist Monk and a Indo-Greek king thought to have been Menander. So it's very evident that a dialog was happening between east and west. read more