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Were there not Buddhist monks in Egypt too at some point?
by selimthegrim 4y ago
Were there not Buddhist monks in Egypt too at some point?
- rjknight 4y agoThese people, from whom we get the modern usage of the term "therapy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutae
- DiscourseFan 4y agoI'm writing a whole thesis right now on the connections between Ancient Indian Philosophy and Psychoanaylsis. It's almost done, maybe I'll post it here for you guys to read.
- RugnirViking 4y agoI'd be interested in that!
- jaldhar 4y agoYes. Romaka in Sanskrit literature is Egyptian Alexandria not Rome as one might think. It was the major port of trade between East and West during the Graeco-Roman era and an intellectual center thanks to the library. Indian philosophers were known to have been present there. (Though, again, we don’t precisely precisely know if they were Buddhists or some other sect.)