Ideas transfer across time. The Greeks in Northern India/Bactria were conquered around 30-80 BC. The Greek influence in art lasted a few more centuries, with references to Yavana monks lasting until around 200-300 AB. So it is still realistic. The "Pali Cannon" that Buddhists follow was not set until 500 AD roughly. These dates are relatively close for that era. Ideas moved slowly. In Europe they died with Rome, only to return after Greeks fled the fall of Constantinople..
Pali was canonized in the 1st century bc under King Vatagamini also known as King Walagambu , at a location called Thambapni in Sri Lanka. It was during the 4th great council. That council was divided between Kashmir and Sri Lanka.
The entire Tipitaka of 22 thousand pages, the holy book of Buddhism was put to memory as it was the tradition Due to wars and upheaval the priests were dying and the fear was the book would die with them. so the king had 500 priests put the oral version to writing. Copies were made and distributed across the Buddhist world .
I am sure copies ended up in Nalanda, Nagarjunakonda, Vikramashila and Taxila
There is plenty of Greek influence but that text on astronomy may not be one of them. Buddhism is a reaction to Brahmanism. The role of compassion is methodically deduced . It is analyzed . The journey of Buddha's enlightenment is rationally deduced and methodically laid out in a manner unique to Buddhism and different from Hinduism. Good book to read is the Kalama Sutta. The Buddha's charter of Free thought"
Nagarjunakonda began in the 3rd century ad. That was in the late Roman era. I do not see the connection to ancient Greece.
Ideas transfer across time. The Greeks in Northern India/Bactria were conquered around 30-80 BC. The Greek influence in art lasted a few more centuries, with references to Yavana monks lasting until around 200-300 AB. So it is still realistic. The "Pali Cannon" that Buddhists follow was not set until 500 AD roughly. These dates are relatively close for that era. Ideas moved slowly. In Europe they died with Rome, only to return after Greeks fled the fall of Constantinople..
Pali was canonized in the 1st century bc under King Vatagamini also known as King Walagambu , at a location called Thambapni in Sri Lanka. It was during the 4th great council. That council was divided between Kashmir and Sri Lanka.
The entire Tipitaka of 22 thousand pages, the holy book of Buddhism was put to memory as it was the tradition Due to wars and upheaval the priests were dying and the fear was the book would die with them. so the king had 500 priests put the oral version to writing. Copies were made and distributed across the Buddhist world .
I am sure copies ended up in Nalanda, Nagarjunakonda, Vikramashila and Taxila
There is plenty of Greek influence but that text on astronomy may not be one of them. Buddhism is a reaction to Brahmanism. The role of compassion is methodically deduced . It is analyzed . The journey of Buddha's enlightenment is rationally deduced and methodically laid out in a manner unique to Buddhism and different from Hinduism. Good book to read is the Kalama Sutta. The Buddha's charter of Free thought"
Thank you. I was taught that the earliest certifiable copies were from around 500 AD, but I did not take into account the verbal tradition.
You are welcome, The written form of the Tipitaka was in the 1st century BC. when it was transliterated from the oral tradition into the written form