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SUMMARY:Eitner Lecture with M. D. Usher\, "Journey to the West: Buddhists 
 in Ancient Alexandria"
LOCATION:Building 500\, Archaeology Center 106\, 488 Escondido Mall\, Stan
 ford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Stanford Archaeology Center (500-106). Appetizers a
 nd drinks provided from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.\n\nTalk description: The r
 ecent discovery of a Buddha statue in Berenike---the first West of Afghan
 istan---confirms the presence of Buddhists in Hellenistic Egypt. This tal
 k argues that the Therapeutae\, a monastic community of men and women des
 cribed by Philo of Alexandria in On the Contemplative Life---long thought
  to be Jewish---were actually Buddhist.\n\nShort bio: M. D. Usher is the 
 Lyman-Roberts Professor Classical Languages and Literature at the Univers
 ity of Vermont. He teaches and writes on topics related to the environmen
 t\, agriculture\, traditional crafts\, sustainability\, utopian thinking\
 , ancient philosophy\, and oral art forms. He has just completed a biogra
 phy of Plotinus for Princeton.\n\nThe Lorenz Eitner Lectures on Classical
  Art and Culture publicize classics and classical scholarship to a wider 
 public. The series has been endowed by Peter and Lindsay Joost\, great fr
 iends and benefactors of Stanford Classics\, in honor of the late Lorenz 
 Eitner\, director of Stanford’s art museum\, now known as the Cantor Cent
 er\, in the 1960s-80s. He also chaired what was then the Department of Ar
 t and Architecture and was a distinguished expert of French Romantic pain
 ting\, and the author of a dozen books on art and art history. In naming 
 these annual lectures after him\, we honor the memory of a renowned schol
 ar\, teacher and writer who oversaw the expansion of our art museum to a\
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