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'''Milinda''' is the Pali rendering of the Greek name Menandros, a Greek soldier in the army of Alexander the Great, who later made himself king of a large part of what is now eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan in the 2nd century BCE. Milinda eventually converted to Buddhism, perhaps due to the influence of a monk named [[Nagasena]] and later both he and the monk were used as the protagonists in a Buddhist book named the [[Milindapanha]]. | '''Milinda''' is the Pali rendering of the Greek name Menandros, a Greek soldier in the army of Alexander the Great, who later made himself king of a large part of what is now eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan in the 2nd century BCE. Milinda eventually converted to Buddhism, perhaps due to the influence of a monk named [[Nagasena]] and later both he and the monk were used as the protagonists in a Buddhist book named the [[Milindapanha]]. | ||
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Revision as of 04:21, 19 November 2008
Milinda is the Pali rendering of the Greek name Menandros, a Greek soldier in the army of Alexander the Great, who later made himself king of a large part of what is now eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan in the 2nd century BCE. Milinda eventually converted to Buddhism, perhaps due to the influence of a monk named Nagasena and later both he and the monk were used as the protagonists in a Buddhist book named the Milindapanha.