Returning visitors to this site will notice that it looks quite a bit different. (Anyone who happened to be prowling around here in the wee hours of the morning night before last would have noticed that it changed appearance radically every twenty minutes or so.) Explanation: I started with the intention of […]
The Milindapanha is a Buddhist text which purports to record a series of conversations between King Milinda (Greek Menandros, Latin Menander), king of Bactria, and the monk Nagasena. Bactria was one of the Asian Greek kingdoms founded in the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquest of portions of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent; it […]
The following story occurs in Book I of Hiuen Tsiang’s Buddhist Records of the Western World, and deserves to be recorded:
A former king of this country worshipped the Triple Gem. Wishing to pay homage to the sacred relics of the outer world, he intrusted the affairs of the empire to his younger brother on […]
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