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... the parts of this problem, one of the best known is that in which the Venerable Nagasena expounds the No-Soul doctrine to King Milinda. Nagasena had remarked to the king that, though he was called Nagasena, this was merely a convenient designation, an appellation, and any other designation would have done...

... brings Descartes into dialogue with Buddhist philosopher Nagasena and Hobbes with Mengzi, and last but not least, he shows how a wide swath of Western ethics philosophers do not adequately answer questions that the neo-Confucians Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming do. The point of this chapter is to show...

.... In the latter part of the fifth century, an Indian Buddhist monk, Nagasena, visited the capital of Funan and made a report to the Chinese emperor on the manners and customs of the people. His account and "The French sinologist, Paul Pelliot, collected all the references to this region he could find in Chinese...

... antiquity, by the mythical King Vicitrasagara.27 The worship of the royal linga seems to have been introduced into Funan by the second Kaundinya about the beginning of the fifth century, who established it on Mount Motan where Nagasena observed it in 484. Coedes thinks this worship was undoubtedly...

.... The skeptical Thiphakprawong concluded that the Jatakas were only fables, and that Nagasena could certainly not have descended from the brabma heavens.57 On another occasion, Mongkut told Bastian that the Nepalese doctrine of the Adi Buddha of Nepal was the Buddhist belief closest to the idea of the Christian...