Note 357 — LECTURE VI. THE TWO RELIGIONS IN HISTORY.

Nâgârdjuna, the Nagasēna of the Milindipanha, was the chief representative, if not founder, of one of the Mahāyāna Schools. He has been regarded as a mythical personage, and the name has been supposed to be the generic one of various authors and doctors of the system. For an account of Hināyāna and Mahāyāna doctrine, with its subdivisions, see Wassilief, Le Bouddhisme, etc., pp. 9 seq., 118 seq.; Schlagintweit, Buddhism in Tibet, pp. 19-57. Nâlanda must have been a very important centre in Buddhist times.—Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship, p. 79.