[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for Socrates

[Fools Crow]

Thank you very much. Looks like I have a lot of searching and reading  
to do if I want to follow up on that thought.

On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:47 PM, jkirk wrote:

> French scholars have proposed that there is evidence, and that  
> Indian Buddhist monks traveled as far as some Greek provinces. We  
> know that the Indians met Greeks after Alexander the Great's  
> conquests (if not before) into what is now Iran and north India.   
> Certainly the humoral medical systems of both the ancient Greeks  
> and ancient Indians are very similar (as is the ancient Chinese  
> vernacular system in some of its characteristics, as well). There  
> is one particular French scholar who wrote about similarities  
> between ancient Greek thought and ancient Indian thought,  
> especially medical systems, and discussed possible communications  
> between the sub-continent and the Mediterranean areas, but right  
> now I can't remember his name. Maybe someone on the list can.
> Joanna
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