{"product_id":"the-questions-of-king-milinda-an-abridgement-of-the-milindapanh-257-paperback","title":"The Questions of King Milinda: An Abridgement of the Milindapañh\u0026#257; - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBhikkhu Bodhi\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eN. K. G. Mendis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday the encounter between Buddhism and Western civilization has been hailed as a cultural event of far-reaching significance, promising to exercise a major impact on both partners to the meeting. However, the first encounter between Buddhism and the West took place long ago, in Northwest India during the age of Alexander the Great, and it resulted in one of the most sublime works of Buddhist literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Questions of King Milinda\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work, preserved in the Pali language, is an imaginative record of a series of discussions between the Bactrian Greek King Milinda (Menander), who reigned in the Punjab, and the Buddhist sage Bhante Nagasena. Their spirited dialogue-dramatic and witty, eloquent and inspired-explores the diverse problems of Buddhist thought and practice from the perspective of a probing Greek intellectual who is both perplexed and fascinated by the strangely rational religion he discovered on the Indian subcontinent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present abridged edition has been adapted from existing scholarly translations, and includes in an easily readable style the most essential passages of the original classic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eT.W. Rhys Davids, the first translator of the text into English, ventures the opinion that \"the Questions of Milinda is undoubtedly the masterpiece of Indian prose, and indeed is the best book of its class, from a literary point of view, that had then been produced in any country.\" The great Buddhist commentator Ācariya Buddhaghosa cites the Milindapañhā as an authority in his Visuddhimagga and his commentaries to the Pali Canon, while in Burma the book has actually been included in the Sutta Piṭaka itself, as part of the Khuddaka Nikāya or Miscellaneous Collection. Although the Buddhists of the other Theravāda countries have not gone quite so far in expressing their esteem, in all those lands where the Pali Tipiṭaka reigns supreme the Milindapañhā stands just behind it as a weighty textual source for resolving knotty problems of doctrine and as a gem of classical Pali literature.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52758379692339,"sku":"9781681727813","price":28.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qFSTn1vXS9781681727813.webp?v=1764435494","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-questions-of-king-milinda-an-abridgement-of-the-milindapanh-257-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}