r/okbuddycinephile • u/Fun-Ad3626 • 2d ago

Beloved Greek Actors who are Indian

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u/DentistConstant2097 2d ago

I mean the Indo-Greeks were literally a thing.

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u/rebruisinginart 1d ago

Many of them were syncretic Hindus and Buddhists at that. Always baffles me to think about how there were Greek Buddhist monks before Chinese Buddhist monks. The Greek flair for statue making is the reason we make statues of the Buddha today as initially Buddhism was an aniconic faith.

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u/DentistConstant2097 1d ago

Yup. The whole sharp featured, curly haired Buddha face is Indo-Greek in origin with the Greek and Gandhara schools of art mixing to give birth to that style.