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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Windows2k" data-source="post: 7540097" data-attributes="member: 281720">[<a href="http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:collapseTable%280%29;" target="_blank">hide</a>]  Part of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Buddhism" target="_blank">series</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhism</a>    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dharma_Wheel.svg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Dharma_Wheel.svg/50px-Dharma_Wheel.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Buddhism" target="_blank">Portal of Buddhism</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">Outline of Buddhism</a>      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">History of Buddhism</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">Timeline</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_councils" target="_blank">Buddhist   councils</a>       Major figures       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" target="_blank">Gautama Buddha</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disciples_of_the_Buddha" target="_blank">Disciples</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddhists" target="_blank">Later   Buddhists</a>      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Dharma</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_terms_and_concepts" target="_blank">concepts</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" target="_blank">Four Noble Truths</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path" target="_blank">Noble Eightfold Path</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence" target="_blank">Three marks of existence</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da" target="_blank">Dependent origination</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Saṃsāra</a>  · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana" target="_blank">Nirvāṇa</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandha" target="_blank">Skandha</a>   · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology" target="_blank">Cosmology</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Buddhism" target="_blank">Karma</a>  · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Rebirth</a>         <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Buddhist_meditation" target="_blank">Practices</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_enlightenment" target="_blank">attainment</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhahood" target="_blank">Buddhahood</a>   · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" target="_blank">Bodhisattva</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_enlightenment" target="_blank">4 stages of enlightenment</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praj%C3%B1%C4%81" target="_blank">Wisdom</a>  · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation" target="_blank">Meditation</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simran" target="_blank">Smarana</a>   · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_Precepts" target="_blank">Precepts</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ramit%C4%81" target="_blank">Pāramitās</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Jewels" target="_blank">Three    Jewels</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism" target="_blank">Monastics</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Householder_%28Buddhism%29" target="_blank">Laity</a>      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_by_country" target="_blank">Countries</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_by_region" target="_blank">regions</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">Schools</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada" target="_blank">Theravāda</a>   · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana" target="_blank">Mahāyāna</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana" target="_blank">Vajrayāna</a>      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_texts" target="_blank">Texts</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Buddhist_canon" target="_blank">Chinese canon</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon" target="_blank">Pali  canon</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhist_canon" target="_blank">Tibetan canon</a>      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Buddhism-related_articles" target="_blank">Related topics</a>       <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Comparative_Buddhism" target="_blank">Comparative studies</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_elements_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">Cultural elements</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Buddhism" target="_blank">Criticism</a>        This box: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Buddhism" target="_blank">view</a> • <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Buddhism" target="_blank">talk</a> • <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Buddhism&action=edit" target="_blank">edit</a>      Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Graeco-Buddhism,   refers to the cultural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism" target="_blank">syncretism</a> between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization" target="_blank">Hellenistic culture</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhism</a>,   which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in   the area covered by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_sub-continent" target="_blank">Indian   sub-continent</a>, and modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>,   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" target="_blank">Pakistan</a>   and north-western border regions of modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a>,   namely western portions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir" target="_blank">Jammu   and Kashmir</a>. It was a cultural consequence of a long  chain of  interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the time of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" target="_blank">Alexander   the Great</a>, carried further by  the establishment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greeks" target="_blank">Indo-Greek</a>  rule in the area for some centuries,  and extended during flourishing  of the Hellenized empire of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushans" target="_blank">Kushans</a>.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>]  Greco-Buddhism influenced the  artistic, and perhaps the spiritual  framework, developments of  Buddhism, particularly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana_Buddhism" target="_blank">Mahayana   Buddhism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism_in_India" target="_blank">founded in India</a>, which  represents one of the two  main branches of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhism</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Greece#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a>  The Buddhist religious system was then adopted  in Central and  Northeastern Asia, from the 1st century CE, ultimately  spreading to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" target="_blank">China</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea" target="_blank">Korea</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" target="_blank">Japan</a>. Of   central importance in the study of Greco-Buddhism is the claim of   Ranajit Pal <a href="http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007-12-39.html" target="_blank">[1]</a> that the Indo-Greek  king Diodotus-I was the  great Ashoka himself.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Greece#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a>  which has been supported by scholars such as  Thomas McEvilley.<a href="http://www.ranajitpal.com/" target="_blank">[2]</a>     Buddhism in Germany                                                                            From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia                                                                                                                                                                               Jump to:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Germany#head" target="_blank">navigation</a>,                     <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Germany#p-search" target="_blank">search</a></blockquote>

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