Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

Ashok Ogra In the serene beauty of its snow-capped mountains and lush valleys, Kashmir has long been a land of paradoxes ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

The remarkable synthesis of Hellenistic traditions and Buddhism in Gandhara was likely the result of Hellenic and Hellenized individuals who had embraced Buddhism." Grace Ramswick (Stanford ...

2 In whatever way one judges the detailed exegesis of Origen and Ambrose, its deepest basis was neither Hellenistic allegory ... Oriental Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.) ...

The Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Afghan Taliban, were an example of the Gandhara style of art, also called Greco-Buddhist art. It exhibited the influences of the Hellenistic styles ...

Communication is the basis of meaning. To understand how to communicate is to know who we are and how we ought to live. In the 21 st century, as professional work becomes ever more specialised and ...