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	Nagasena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is no agreed-upon point at which Nagasena's authorship may be said to end (and the work of other hands begins), nor has this been perceived as an inherently important distinction by monastic schoars.
		There is an Indo-Chinese tradition that Nagasena brought to Thailand the first representation of the Buddha, the Emerald Buddha.
		Nagasena is not known through other sources besides the Milinda Panha and this Indo-Chinese legend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagasena (281 words)

	Article - Menander and Nagasena - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved
		Drawing closer, Menandros quickly recognized Nagasena: the one "like a maned lion devoid of fear and dread, devoid of terror, devoid of fear and trepidation."* The king thought to himself that although he had seen many spiritual leaders, and engaged them in intense discussion, he had never felt the panic he now knew.
		Nagasena accepted the invitation and, after a good night's sleep, proceeded with his huge party of monks to Sagala and the palace.
		Nagasena and a few dozen of his companions were directed to the king's quarters, where Nagasena took his seat at the indicated place of honor.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=310_0_1_0_M (1947 words)

	The Chariot By Bill Vallicella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nagasena begins their dialog by introducing himself to the King as ‘Nagasena,’ but immediately adds that ‘Nagasena,’ like any name, is a convenient designation that does not denote any ego or individual or person (puggala).
		He first obtains Nagasena’s agreement on three points: (i) Nagasena is not identical to any one of his proper parts, whether these be physical (brain, liver,...) or mental (sensations, perceptions...); (ii) Nagasena is not identical to the mere sum of his parts; (iii) Nagasena is not identical to something wholly distinct from his parts.
		From this three-fold admission, Nagasena concludes that the king is bound to infer that the term ‘chariot’ is an empty sound and that his majesty speaks a falsehood insofar as he implies, by his use of the term ‘chariot,’ that there actually is something in the world to which the term applies.
	www.independentphilosopher.org /the_chariot_by_bill_vallicella.htm (5850 words)

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		Nagasena -- No. When they took wrongly what he said, then was there a burning kindled within them, and hot blood was ejected from their mouths.
		Nagasena -- Just so, O king, does the Buddha present the gift of his ambrosia to the men and gods in the ten thousand world systems; and those beings who are capable of doing so are made wise by the nectar of his law while they who are not are destroyed and fall.
		The sage Nagasena spoke in metaphor, and used a dramatic figure of speech in order to impress the king with the intensity of reaction that would inevitably follow upon any premature attempt to wrest from nature her secrets before one had proved himself worthy.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/22-72-3/rel-jal.htm (1891 words)

	Milinda's question \| Jef's web files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If, Nagasena concludes, neither all the parts nor anything outside the parts are the chariot, the chariot does not exist, it is a mere word.
		Milinda tries to extricate himself by saying that the composite of all things mentioned by Nagasena is commonly understood as a chariot and that is what he came in.
		Nagasena approves of the King's grasp of the matter: the same, he says, applies to the term' individuality'.
	www.jefallbright.net /node/3275 (628 words)

	Article - Nagasena - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved
		Arhat Nagasena, is one of the sixteen arhats.
		Nagasena appears to defeat the king on exclusively logical ground, viz, that the king's initial statement is inconsistent and self-contradictory.
		Nagasena then attempts to make an analogy to taste-one knows the taste of a substance only when it is on the tongue, not while in the stomach.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=311_0_1_0_M (1311 words)

	Daniel Smith: Paper 1
		Nagasena is never shown as acting humble toward the Senior Monk Rohana during their earlier encounters.
		Later, when Nagasena is preaching to an old woman, he metaphorically ‘dips his hand into the pot’ of his words, consumes it and as a result he ‘attain[s] to the state of a Stream-Enterer’(70).
		When Nagasena sits directly in the middle of his eighty thousand disciples, he is like the core of the doctrine — like the grain of rice in the husk and the senior monk in the rive.
	beloit.edu /~gummern/critical_tools/rlst241_fall_2001/exegesis/daniel1/htmltext.html (1443 words)

	Mirrors of the Heart-Mind - Nagasena Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nagasena (T. kLu-yi sDe), or "master of the Nagas," was a learned monk and lived about 100 years after Buddha Shakyamuni.
		Nagasena resided on Mount Pandava in Magadha with 1,200 disciples.
		In the SAMA painting, Nagasena is shown seated at ease on a rock in a craggy mountain landscape, holding a khakkhara, or mendicant staff, in his right hand, and displaying the vitarka mudra (Frederic, 4).
	kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu /exhib/sama/Essays/SL92.062Nagsna.html (565 words)

	Adam Carlson: Paper 1
		In the story of the senior monk Nagasena we find a figure that is both a source of adulation and a source of emulation for the reader.
		Yet after Nagasena learns all this, the monks then seem to forgo everything they have said and teach him the philosophical texts because they are aware of his potential.
		Nagasena then learns how even though we can work together toward the same goals there are differences within all of us that set us apart.
	beloit.edu /~gummern/critical_tools/rlst241_fall_2001/exegesis/adamc/htmltext.html (1361 words)

	Newsletter and Lotus Review
		Nagasena too represented the Sangha at Birmingham Council of Faiths’ 30th anniversary celebrations, which were held in the Council House.
		Nagasena on an alms round, of Yann meditating, and of David Beckham among the gods and boddhisattvas on a shrine's frieze, are rare and strange.
		Nagasena and Yann; and four students from King Edward VI School for Girls (and the Sri Lankan mother of one of them) doing a project on Buddhism and how it has adapted to the West.
	www.birminghambuddhistvihara.org /Newsletter.html (21016 words)

	Questions of King Milinda
		Nagasena replied: "The sentence, "Do not occupy yourselves, Ananda, with worshipping the bodily remains of the Tathagata!" was not addressed to everyone, but only to the Conqueror's sons, the monks.
		But the thorough understanding of all conditioned things, wise attention, the consideration of the applications of mindfulness, the seizing-of the real essence of all objects of thought, the battle with the passions, and the pursuit of the highest good—that is what the Conqueror's sons have to do.
		Then drew near Milinda the king to where the venerable Nagasena was; and having drawn near, he greeted the venerable Nagasena, and having passed the compliments of friendship and civility, he sat down respectfully at one side.
	www.as.miami.edu /phi/bio/Buddha/Milinda.htm (5908 words)

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		Nagasena's Third Response: Dinna outside the door and then inside analogous to a flavor first perceived by the tongue and then being passed into the stomach.
		Nagasena discourses on the Abhidharma, the philosophical discourse on the sutras found in the Pali scripture.
		Nagasena gives straight either/or answer: Nirvana is "unalloyed bliss." Perhaps this makes sense if one is talking about Nirvana while alive, because this experience could be verified.
	www.aar-site.org /syllabus/syllabi/g/gier/307/milina.htm (2021 words)

	Lecture: Buddha and Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The sense — and the object — of what Nagasena said is this: that one must turn one's gaze away from everything that the eye can behold in the physical world.
		Nagasena wished to point out that actually nothing exists in the physical world which in itself constitutes what is collectively designated by a name, in order that he may thus reveal the worthlessness and meaninglessness of all the physical-material constituents of things.
		And then Nagasena could look back upon the old analogy of the carriage, and could now say, speaking of course, out of the spirit of Christianity: — ‘True it is that the shafts are not the carriage, for with the shafts alone thou coulds't not be conveyed.
	wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/BudChr_index.html (5911 words)

	Milinda’s Questions » From the vaults
		Meanings of terms aside, we should note that Nagasena pretty clearly is choosing the ground on which he’ll engage the king.
		Nagasena never puts it forward as a position he himself is defending.
		Nagasena and/or the author of the Milindapanha may be doing something similar here; demonstrating that, based solely on assumptions that Milinda has put forward, Nagasena can bring the king around to agreement with his own position.
	milindasquestions.com /?p=9 (2961 words)

	Reply To The Revolutionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The story of Nagasena vs. King Milinda is important for Buddhist to understand because the story match Western thought against Eastern logic.
		In explaining the debate between Milinda and Nagasena I changed the language to common Ebonics or Black street language to illustrate the story.
		Nagasena replied that would be true if it were not reborn.
	www.proudblackbuddhist.org /reply_to_the_revolutionary.htm (4029 words)

	Buddhism and Self
		How can I be expected to agree with that!" But Milinda gradually realizes that "Nagasena" (the word) does not stand for anything he can point to: "Nagasena" does not designate the hairs on Nagasena's head, nor the hairs of the body, nor the "nails, teeth, skin, muscles, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys,..." etc.
		Nagasena points out that we can't say exactly what a chariot is, either; it's not the pole or the axle or the wheels, or the flag-staff, yoke, reins, etc. But that doesn't mean there are no chariots.
		Nagasena answers this without paradox: "No!" We just established that there is the universe and it is held together by the dharmas, which govern all change (dependent origination) of things within the universe.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/Buddhism_and_identity.htm (1117 words)

	Milindapañha
		Composed around the beginning of the Christian era, and of unknown authorship, the Milindapañha is set up as a compilation of questions posed by King Milinda to a revered senior monk named Nagasena.
		The king asked: "Venerable Nagasena, if someone passes away and is reborn in the Brahma world, and if another passes away and is reborn in Kashmir, which one takes the longer time, and which the shorter?"
		The king asked: "Venerable Nagasena, for whom is the greater demerit, one who knowingly does evil, or one who does evil unknowingly?"
	www.cambodianbuddhist.org /english/website/canon/sutta/khuddaka/miln (1925 words)

	La saviesa budista: Preguntes al rei Milinda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you would walk at midday on this hot, burning, and sandy ground, then your feet would have to tread on the rough and gritty gravel and pebbles, and they would hurt you, your body would get tired, your mind impaired, and your awareness of your body would be associated with pain.
		For it is in dependence on the pole, the axle, the wheels, the framework, the flagstaff, etc., that there takes place this denomination "chariot", this designation, this conceptual term, a current appellation and a mere name'.
		The king asked: 'When someone is reborn, Venerable Nagasena, is he the same as the one who just died, or is he another?'- The Elder replied: 'He is neither the same nor another'.
	www.upf.es /materials/huma/central/historia/xinamon/docums/milinda.htm (3435 words)

	The Questions of King Milinda
		"As Nagasena I am known, O Great King, and as Nagasena do my fellow religious habitually address me. But although parents give name such as Nagasena, or Surasena, or Virasena, or Sihasena, nevertheless, this word "Nagasena" is just a denomination, a designation, a conceptual term, a current appellation, a mere name.
		If you would walk at midday on this hot, burning, and sandy ground, then your feet would have to trend on the rough and gritty gravel and pebbles, and they would hurt you, your body would get tired, your mind impaired, and your awareness of your body would be associated with pain.
		He saw the value in the Buddha's religion, gained confidence in the Triple Gem, lost his spikiness and obstinacy, gained faith in the qualities of the elder, in his observation of the monastic rules, his spiritual progress and his general demeanour; became trusting and resigned, free from conceit and arrogance.
	web.singnet.com.sg /~rjp31831/nagasena.htm (5114 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Milindapanha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pali that proports to be the record of a dialogue between the Buddhist monk Nagasena and the Greek King Milinda.
		Milinda asks a series of questions highlighting what seem to be anomalies and contradictions in Buddhist doctrine, to each of which Nagasena gives clear, even ingenious answers.
		Nagasena comes across as dignified but accessible, confident of his abilities to convince, intellectually alert, learned and witty.
	www.metta.lk /mirror/www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd66.htm (194 words)

	God's Chariot Shows the PathSpirituality - Indiatimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nagasena used the chariotÂ as a metaphor to explain p http://203.199.70.171/cgi-bin/adceptclickthrough.cgi?random_key=18/7/200310:36:180.4142345773457167andhost_name=timesofindia.indiatimes.comandurl_name=www.timesofindia.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow rofound truths:Â
		Surely these hands are not Nagasena; nor are the feet, torso or head...
		so Nagasenaâs real form is not the body called Nagasenaâ.
	spirituality.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-135434,prtpage-1.cms (608 words)

	Venom Crystals
		Nagasena: Suppose a man were to light a lamp from another lamp, can it be said that the one transmigrates from the other?
		Nagasena: Do you bow down and show respect to a criminal? Or do you show him the error of his ways? Do you try to cure vigorous diseases with soft drugs?
		Nagasena: Vice dies away quickly by reason of its meanness, whereas virtue, by its grandeur, takes a long time to die.
	www.theabsolute.net /minefield/venom.html (4003 words)

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		Nagasena immediately complied by vanishing from where he was and miraculously appearing before them.
		Nagasena returned his greetings, and his courtesy pleased the king's heart.
		Verily, now, bhante, Nagasena is a mere empty sound.
	members.tripod.com /~snowlion2/milinda.htm (5713 words)

	Buddha's Words - Gotaro3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And King Melinda of Sagala asked the Venerable Nagasena, "Is cessation Nirvana?" "Yes, your majesty!" "How is that, Nagasena?" "All the foolish common people take delight in the senses and their objects, are impressed by them, are attached to them.
		This is another dilemma, which I now put to you, and which you must resolve." Nagasena replied: "The sentence, 'Do not occupy yourselves, Ananda, with worshipping the bodily remains of the Tathagata!' was not addressed to everyone, but only to the Jina's (another name for The Buddha) sons, the monks.
		But the thorough understanding of all conditioned things, wise attention, the consideration of the applications of mindfulness, the seizing of the real essence of all objects of thought, the battle with the passions, and the pursuit of the highest good - that is what the Jina's sons have to do.
	www.gotaro3.homestead.com /DalaiLama8.html (4698 words)

	Nagasena Thera's Discourse on Rebirth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Introduction: Nagasena Thera was an arahant who lived many years after the Buddha’s parinibbana.
		The Nagasena discussion about the Buddha Dhamma is included under Milindapanha, under Sutta pitaka.
		Although it is in the Sutta Pitaka, Theravada’s Monks seldom mention of the discourse of Nagasena Thera.
	home.earthlink.net /~mpaw1238/id44.html (564 words)

	Sunyata, the emptiness of all things. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first recorded contact between Greek civilisation and Buddhism is the conversation between the Greek King Milinda of Bactria, and Nagasena, a Buddhist chariot dismantler [CONZE 1959].
		Nagasena said this was because the chariot had no power to define itself from its own side.
		Nor was there any ideal chariot form 'in the sky' which engaged and disengaged with the timber at definite stages of assembly and disassembly.
	www.geocities.com /scimah/sunyata.htm (2410 words)

	Buddha's Words - Gotaro2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tell me what in the world is born not of karma, not of cause, not of nature." "These two, sire, in.
		Ether, sire, and Nirvana." "Do not, revered Nagasena, corrupt the Conqueror's words and answer the question ignorantly." "What did I say, sire, that you speak thus to me!" "Revered Nagasena, what you said about ether - that it is born not of karma nor of cause nor of nature - is right.
		It is because of the uncompounded nature of the thing." "Revered Nagasena, is Nirvana uncompounded!" "Yes, sire, Nirvana is uncompounded; it is made by nothing at all.
	ww.gotaro2.homestead.com /Page6B.html (4740 words)

	nagasena - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word nagasena:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "nagasena" is defined.
		NAGASENA : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=nagasena (78 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> So...what Happened To The Buddha?
		But Nagasena replied: "Nevermind just this one king Milinda! If all the kings of India would come to see me with their questions, I could well dispose of them, and they would give no more trouble after that! You may go to Sagala without any fear whatever!"
		If someone should kill you, O Venerable Nagasena, would not be a real teacher, or instructor, or ordained monk! You just told me that your fellow religious habitually address you as "Nagasena".
		"It is wonderful, Nagasena, it is astonishing, Nagasena! Most brilliantly have these questions been answered! Were the Lord Buddha Himself here, He would approve what you have said.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=1073 (6305 words)

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