“The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism” – Andrew Mark Henry | Religion For Breakfast ▶️

Pyrrho, a Greek Buddhist? 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 the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism. On me demande: Est-ce que vous avez…

Perennialism vs. Syncretism – David Bentley HART ▶️

David Bentley Hart lays out why he feels a "cordial hostility" towards perennialism and makes a case for syncretism instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xD6Xl-ky2I David Bentley Hart (born February 1965) is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian. Reviewers have commented on Hart's baroque prose and provocative rhetoric in over one thousand essays, reviews, and…