Texts in cultural knots: Buddha in medieval Europe

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat in a Greek manuscript from the 14th century (Paris, BnF, Grec 1128 f.82v)

"But meanwhile, the king's son, of whom our tale began to tell, never departing from the palace prepared for him, attained to the age of manhood. He had pursued all the learning [..], and was as fair and well favoured in mind as in body, intelligen…