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Ancient Greeks who became Buddhist

Ancient Greeks who became Buddhist

And did they help the Chinese create the famous Terracotta army?

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It may seem implausible but there was a group of ancient Greeks who became Buddhist. So how did this happen? Well, you have to go back to Alexander the Great's conquest of just about everything from Macedonia to the river Indus. His Greek phalanxes proved unstoppable as they bulldozed their way through the Persian Empire and into India.

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