Hi there. You're listening to The Hellenistic Age podcast. Interview episode, Greco Buddhism in Central Asia and India with Lee Clark.

Hello everyone. Joining us on the show today is Lee Clark, a PhD student specializing in the philosophy

of religion and cross-cultural philosophy at Nottingham Trent University.

His current thesis is centered on the similarities and differences shared by Greek and Buddhist philosophy. And today he is here to discuss his work and the development of Buddhist thought. First off, I'd like to just say thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast.

No problem. I'm glad to have an opportunity to do this and increase awareness.

So no problem at all.

I'm glad you have me on it.

Thank you for having me.

Would you care to talk about your background and how you began to study the history

and philosophy of Buddhism?

Yeah, sure.

So firstly, India, I guess, has always been present in my life because my grandfather,

my mom's dad, was Anglo-Indian.

And for North American viewers and even what European views, it might not be fully aware of the term.

It basically was a mixed race person of Indian and European ancestry during the British Raj when the British ruled India.

Essentially, what basically happened was when the British first got to India, there wasn't

a lot of British women that went with the East India Company, etc.

So, of course, they had to marry, obviously, you'd hope they would have fell in love first,

but they had to marry Indian women.

So my granddad wasn't full half and half.

His mother, I think, was half and half herself. So my granddad wasn't full half and half. His mother, I think, was

half and half herself. So my granddad was, I think, a quarter, Indian himself. That is kind of why

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