“Clement of Alexandria was but one major Christian author who showed a strong interest in Indian and Egyptian wisdom traditions. Clement is the first Greek author to mention the Buddha and Buddhism.”
– G. G. Stroumsa, The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge, Mass., 2016), 104
Reijer Stolk, 1943
(Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
D. L. Dusenbury 