Nagasena

Summary

Nagasena is a human^[1]. He worked as a missionary^[2]. He ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month, #7,255 of 1,000,298).^[3]

Key Facts

• Nagasena held citizenship in India^[4].
• Nagasena's professions included missionary^[2].
• Nagasena's religion is recorded as Buddhism^[5].
• Nagasena's image is recorded as Nagasena Arhat by Guanxiu LowResBW.tif^[6].
• Nagasena is recorded as male^[7].
• Nagasena's instance of is recorded as human^[8].
• Nagasena's ISNI is recorded as 0000000054882521^[9].
• Nagasena's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 71402626^[10].
• Nagasena's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n89250571^[11].
• Nagasena's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12015552g^[12].
• Nagasena's IdRef ID is recorded as 028289579^[13].
• Nagasena's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02t4xm^[14].
• Nagasena's floruit is recorded as +0350-00-00T00:00:00Z^[15].
• Nagasena's floruit is recorded as -0150-00-00T00:00:00Z^[16].
• Nagasena's languages spoken, written or signed is recorded as Pali^[17].
• Nagasena's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as biography/Nagasena^[18].
• Nagasena's British Museum person or institution ID is recorded as 12779^[19].
• Nagasena's FAST ID is recorded as 1836699^[20].
• Nagasena's NE.se ID is recorded as nagasena^[21].
• Nagasena's Babelio author ID is recorded as 370293^[22].
• Nagasena's SHARE Catalogue author ID is recorded as 639897^[23].
• Nagasena's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3945335^[24].
• Nagasena's IxTheo authority ID is recorded as 696455471^[25].
• Nagasena's WorldCat Entities ID is recorded as E39PBJp68kfQpdvDpM7vMCPvpP^[26].
• Nagasena's Yale LUX ID is recorded as person/02363a17-5554-4734-8f7f-04db0a8ae566^[27].

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Career and Affiliations

Nagasena worked as a missionary^[2].

Personal Life

Nagasena's religion is recorded as Buddhism^[5].

Why It Matters

Nagasena ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month, #7,255 of 1,000,298).^[3] He has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] He is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

Works attributed to him include Kuṇṭalakēci^[30], a literary work^[31], written by him^[32].

FAQs

What did Nagasena do for work?

Nagasena worked as missionary^[2].