 We do not know the identity of the “naked wise men” whom Pyrrho met in India, or what they thought. There are reports of other meetings between Indian and Greek thinkers during Alexander’s expedition, and these tend to emphasize the Indians’ extraordinary impassivity and insensitivity to pain and hardship. It is not unlikely that Pyrrho, too, was impressed by traits of this kind. Though precedents for his ideal of ataraxia exist in earlier Greek philosophy as well, his reported ability to withstand surgery without flinching is exceptional in the Greek context (and quite distinct from anything in later Pyrrhonism); if we believe this story, it is tempting to explain it by way of some form of training from the Indians. Some scholars have sought to establish more detailed links between the thought of the Aristocles passage and various currents in ancient Indian philosophy; and Beckwith (2015) finds in Pyrrho an authentic representative of early Buddhism. But there is at least room for debate about how far these similarities really go. From an opposing perspective, some have suggested that the linguistic barriers would have ruled out an interchange of any great philosophical subtlety between the Indians and Pyrrho. But this may be overly pessimistic; the expedition lasted a number of years, and some people manage to learn new languages remarkably quickly.