The "Questions of King Milinda" or Milindapanha is an amazing and unique ancient Buddhist text. It records the encounter between a Greek king and a Buddhist monk around 200 BC and reads like a modern dialogue between East and West. The Greek schooled king, whose world view echos some of the views and reasoning which built our Western civilization approaches the Buddhist philosophy like a typical "Westerner." To see the intriguing relevant replies by the Buddhist monk feels like a mirror of our own times. This book contains a "word by word" (interverbal or paraphrased) translation of the...