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On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:41:23 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> Huh... This is a good point. I had never thought of that... Alexander
> did get pretty close to India! In fact he occupied the northern part of
> India which has recently become Pakestan.

Don't forget that Alexander was a late comer. Persia owned Afghanistan, 
Pakistan. and a chunk of India when it invade Greece in 492 BCE. Cyrus had 
already eaten Ionia and the rest of the Greek settlements on that side of 
the pond. 

Was there an exchange of ideas and which way did it flow? Who knows. 
People get around. There's a lot of legend involved but Bodhidharma is 
supposed to have started Chan Buddhism in China. In the art work he isn't 
depicted as Chinese and in the legends he is either from Persia, India, or 
some other vague place far away to the west. Wherever, he had a lot of 
miles on his sandals.