menander i soter was the famous indo greek king who embraced buddhism.
menander i soter was the famous indo greek king who embraced buddhism.
who was the famous indo greek king who embraced buddhism?
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menander i soter (, "ménandros aʹ ho sōtḗr", "menander i the saviour"; known in indian pali sources as milinda) was an indo-greek king of the indo-greek kingdom (165/155 –130 bc) who administered a large empire in the northwestern regions of the indian subcontinent from his capital at sagala. menander is noted for having become a patron of buddhism.
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the milinda panha is another famous non-canonical pali buddhist text that describes the religious dialogues between the famous indo-greek king menander, whose kingdom was in sagala in today's punjab, and a buddhist monk called nagasena, around 160 bce. it is today one of the texts of reference of theravada buddhism.









































according to the milinda panha (i 32-35), the monk nagasena, before his encounter with menander, was once a student of dharmaraksita and learnt buddhism and reached enlightenment as an arhat under his guidance in pataliputra.
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