Revisiting ‘The Questions of Milinda’
Scholar Maria Heim discusses how treating Buddhist texts as literature can enhance our perception and hone our attention.
Maria Heim
Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College and a Guggenheim fellow. Her books include The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy and The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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The Greek King and the Buddhist Monk
Scholar Maria Heim discusses her new translation of The Questions of Milinda, a classic Buddhist text that tells the story of a transformative philosophical discussion between an Indo-Greek king and a Buddhist monk.
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