Nagasena

1 standalone book

Nāgasena was a Sarvāstivādan Buddhist sage who lived around 150 BC. His answers to questions about Buddhism posed by Menander I, the Greek king in north-western India, are recorded in the Milindapañhā and the Sanskrit Nāgasenabhikṣusūtra. According to Pali accounts, he was born into a Brahmin family in the Himalayas and was well-versed in the Vedas before converting to Buddhism.