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NAGARJUNA , a celebrated Buddhist philosopher and writer. He is constantly quoted in the literature of the later See also:schools of See also:Buddhism, and a very large number of See also:works in See also:Sanskrit is attributed to him. None of these has been critically edited or translated; and there is much uncertainty as to the exact date of his tamer, and as to his opinions. The most probable date seems to be the See also:early See also:part of the 3rd See also:century A.D. He seems to have been See also:born in the See also:south of See also:India, and to have lived under the patronage of a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:southern Kosala, the See also:modern Chattisgarh. See also:Chinese and Tibetan authorities differ as to the name of this monarch; but it apparently is meant to represent an See also:Indian name Satavahana, which is a dynastic See also:title, not a See also:personal name. Of the works he probably wrote one was a See also:treatise advocating the Madhyamaka views of which he is the reputed founder; another a See also:long and poetical See also:prose See also:work on the stages of the Bodhisattva career; and a third a voluminous commentary on the Alahaprajnad-paramita Sutra. Chinese tradition ascribes to him See also:special knowledge of herbs, of See also:astrology, of See also:alchemy and of See also:medicine. Two medical See also:treatises, one on prescriptions in See also:general, the other on the treatment of See also:eye-disease, are said, by Chinese writers, to be by him. Several poems of a didactic See also:character are also ascribed to him. The best known of these poems is The Friendly See also:Epistle addressed to King Udayana. A See also:translation into See also:English of a Tibetan version of this piece has been published by Dr See also:Wenzel.
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