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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4577142, member: 112852&quot;]Thank you, limmle!&nbsp; I get the impression that the Buddhist text has been understood as clearly identifying Menander, but many people do not believe that Menander did convert to Buddhism--partly because his coins, with one or two exceptions, do not make use of Buddhist iconography.&nbsp; For me, that&#039;s not really an issue: why should he change his coin design just because he converted to Buddhism, or otherwise found it to be meaningful?</p><p><br /></p><p>But I also wonder if perhaps it was a different, less-well-known king who might have converted to Buddhism, and then had it recorded about Menander, the same way that archaeologists date the building program that the Bible ascribes to Solomon to the time of Ahab (who is recorded as A Bad Guy in the Old Testament).&nbsp; This kind of chronological &quot;telescoping&quot; is very common in the writings of the OT.&nbsp; The other option, of course, is that maybe nobody who was a prominent Greek embraced Buddhism in the way the <i>Milindapanha </i>depicts.&nbsp; That said, I&#039;m sure some did, and the art from Gandhara bears witness to a fusion of Greek and Indian religious art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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