Tripiṭaka and towards enlightenment, before Nagasena himself met Menander at a venerable age. The Milinda Panha therefore seems to relate the dialogue between a great Greek king, Menander I, with a monk trained in Buddhism by the great Greek Buddhist elder Dharmaraksita, tending to suggest the importance of Greeks during the first formative centuries of Buddhism. See also Ashoka's policy of Dhamma Edicts of Ashoka Greco-Buddhism Greco-Buddhist monasticism Mahadharmaraksita References "The Edicts of King Asoka: An English Rendering" by Ven. S. Dhammika (The Wheel Publication No. 386/387) "The shape of ancient thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies" by Thomas McEvilley (Allworth Press, New York, 2002) External links Full text of the Edicts of Ashoka Full text of the Mahavamsa Full text of the Milinda Panha Hellenistic-era people Greek Buddhists 3rd-century BC Buddhists 3rd-century BC people Indian Buddhist missionaries Buddhist missionaries