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Naga

Beings · Myth & story · Nature

A serpent-being of South Asian story, neither ordinary snake nor Chinese dragon. Local naga-kings and later game-naga are reception, not this name’s whole job.

Also known as Nāga

Buddhist traditions

  • Naga appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra attests naga kings among the assembly. South Asian serpent-beings in that Mahāyāna text, not the ordinary serpent node and not a Chinese dragon.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.