[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for Socrates

[jkirk]

The name just hit me: Jean Filiozat.
Do a google search on him or check amazon or your local library --his book 
was translated to English, as I recall---but it might be too old for 
amazon.com.
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> 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.
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> On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:47 PM, jkirk wrote:
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>> 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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