Challenge: Buddhism in the Ancient Euro-Mediterranean World

This challenge has varying degrees of difficulty, but all I'm asking for is significant population of Buddhists in the Euro-Mediterranean region before 200 AD.
 
This challenge has varying degrees of difficulty, but all I'm asking for is significant population of Buddhists in the Euro-Mediterranean region before 200 AD.
This guy uses diplomatic contacts to fund stupas and missionaries in the Levant, Egypt, and Greece. The Romans do not bother supressing them, and the Buddhist cult gains a number of adherents in both the east and urban areas.

One of the best known monks was a Jewish convert named Father Ishua. Translations into Latin, Greek, and Aramaic are largely traced to the Stupa he established in the Galilee.

HTG
 
This challenge has varying degrees of difficulty, but all I'm asking for is significant population of Buddhists in the Euro-Mediterranean region before 200 AD.

Shameless Plug: search for Answers for MIlinda, about the Indo-Greeks establishing a state that stretches (briefly) between the Indus and Ganges, and the ensuing results.
 
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