Question

Kanishka was a Buddhist but his coins show that he honoured the Zoroastrian,Greek and Brahmanic deities also and not just gautam buddha. he even promoted art where eastern and western influences were mixed in the form of gandhar school of art.

Find out similarities between the religious policy of Kanishka and that of free india?​

Answer 1

Greco-Buddhism, or Graeco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the fourth century BCE and the fifth century CE in Bactria (parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)[2] and the Gandhara (parts of modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan).[3][4][5] It was a cultural consequence of a long chain of interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the time of Alexander the Great. The Macedonian satraps were then conquered by the Mauryan Empire, under the reign of Chandragupta Maurya. The Mauryan Emperor Ashoka would convert to Buddhism and spread the religious philosophy throughout his domain, as recorded in the Edicts of Ashoka.