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Jan Westerhoff

Philosopher and orientalist

Aug 31, 2026

1:36
So who is Nagarjuna, and why do people call him the Second Buddha?
1:40
Mm-hmm.
1:41
Yeah, so Nagarjuna lived in the s- first or second century of the Common Era.
1:49
Um, we don't know exactly when.
1:52
Um, he was an Indian Buddhist monk, probably from southern India.
1:59
Um, and that is as much as we know in kind of hard facts about his biography.
2:05
Um, what we know more about are his works and how influential they were.
3:34
Sure.

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