Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book/podcast/history of how #Buddhism and Ancient #Rome interacted? I was doing the Chrono today https://chrono.quest/ and one of the dates was the death of #Buddha which fell pretty early in the span of the Roman Republic, before #Alexander on the Greek side so; early! It never occurred to me that they had to have interacted since eventually Buddhist regions were the eastern border of the Roman empire.

I dug into Wiki and read that summary, #Strabo, the Pompeii Lakshmi ivory statuette and some stuff on the possible influence of Buddhism on the interaction between Rome and early Christians.

I'd like a more, I don't know, technical history of that interaction though, any thoughts?
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