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Did Aristotle read Buddha's teachings

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There is significant evidence that there was historic contact between India and Greece. This is usually in discussion of Alexander the great who lives about the same time as Aristotle. Assuming that the Greeks already knew of India before that time there is a good chance that there might have been an earlier cultural or economic exchange. As Buddha had lives some 200 years before these named Greeks there is a significant opportunityr for his teachings to have reached Greece.

Aristotle could have been aware or familiar with the teachings.

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