According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

According to this source, Qiáochénrú was one of the successors of the king Tiānzhú Zhāntán 天竺旃檀 (“ Candana from India ”), a ruler of Funan who in the year 357 AD sent tamed elephants as tribute to the Emperor Mu of Jin ( r. 344 – 361 ; personal name: Sīmǎ Dān 司馬聃 ): “ He was originally a Brahmin from India.

According to one legend, the nomadic tribe of Kerala, the Kakkarissi, were descendants of a Brahmin who came out of the mouth of Garuda, the vehicle of Lord Vishnu.

According to Al-Biruni ( 973 – 1048 ), Kallar, a Brahmin minister of the Turkshahi, founded the Hindushahi dynasty in 843.

According to the original scripture written by Vyasa, Karna was cursed by a Brahmin for killing his cow.

According to Dyczkowski, " We know nothing about him except that he was the son of one Divakarabhatta and was, therefore, like the other Kashmiri Saiva authors, a Brahmin by caste, as Bhatta was a title bestowed to learned Brahmins in Kashmir at that time " ( p. 2 ).

According to Hindu tradition, Saint Adi Shankara composed and recited Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Goddess Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, for a single amla presented to him as Bhiksha by that lady on an auspicious Dwadashi day.

According to reports by two Chinese envoys, K ' ang T ' ai and Chu Ying, the state was established by an Indian Brahmin named Kaundinya, who in the 1st century CE was given instruction in a dream to take a magic bow from a temple and defeat a Khmer queen, Soma.

According to reports by two Chinese envoys, K ' ang T ' ai and Chu Ying, the state was established by an Indian Brahmin named Kaundinya, who in the 1st century CE was given instruction in a dream to take a magic bow from a temple and defeat a Khmer queen, Soma.

According to the legend, Raman Perumthachan was born to a Brahmin father Vararuchi and mother from a Paraiyar ( reed weaver ) caste, hailing from the village of Thrithala.

According the Pararaton ( The Book of Kings ), a folklore tale re-telling about Kings of Java but starts only from and mostly emphasis on Ken Arok with the myths combined, Ken Arok was the son of a peasant Ken Endok (" Endok " literally means Egg, which is also means " 0 " or " Unknown "), wife of a Brahmin Gajahpura in the kingdom of Kediri.

According to Nepal's foremost historian Baburam Acharya and Professor Suryamani Adhikary of Tribhuvan University almost all of the Bahuns are Khas descendents, i. e. a Nepalese Bahun's race is Khas, and caste is Brahmin, other castes of Khas people being Chhettri, Sanyasi and Dalit.

According to an interview in Blood & Honour magazine, he got in touch with neo-Nazi organisation Zorn 88 ’ s ( later called Norges Nasjonalsocialistiske Bevegelse ) magazine Gjallarhorn in 1992 and joined White Aryan Resistance before he murdered Øystein Aarseth.

According to Joscelyn Godwin's research: " the basic outlines of Evola's prehistory resemble those of Theosophy, with Lemurian, Atlantean, and Aryan root-races succeeding each other, and a pole-shift marking the transition from one epoch to another " ( Arktos, p. 60 ).

According to many experts including Adelung Kashmir Valley is the home of the Aryan Race.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mexican Mafia had arranged for contract killings to be carried out by the Aryan Brotherhood, a white prison gang.

According to Blavatsky the sixth subrace of the Aryan root race will begin to evolve in the area of the United States in the early 21st century.

According to the " Aims ," Northern Europeans are the " purest survival of the great Indo-European family of nations, sometimes described as the Caucasian race and at other times as the Aryan race.

According to Porphyry, in 232, at the age of 28, Plotinus went to Alexandria to study philosophy:

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

According to Moyra Grant, in political philosophy " collectivism " refers to any philosophy or system that puts any kind of group ( such as a class, nation, race, society, state, etc.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

According to Hailsham, a former chairman of the British Conservative Party, " Conservatism is not so much a philosophy as an attitude, a constant force, performing a timeless function in the development of a free society, and corresponding to a deep and permanent requirement of human nature itself.

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

According to the rationalist philosophy, design is informed by research and knowledge in a predictable and controlled manner.

According to the famous Theses on Feuerbach ( 1845 ), philosophy had to stop " interpreting " the world in endless metaphysical debates, in order to start " changing " the world, as was being done by the rising workers ' movement observed by Engels in England ( Chartist movement ) and by Marx in France and Germany.

According to their claims, these rosicrucian communities " made valuable contributions to the newly emerging American culture in the fields of printing, philosophy, the sciences and arts ".

According to Fichte, transcendental philosophy can explain that the world must have space, time, and causality, but it can never explain why objects have the particular sensible properties they happen to have or why I am this determinate individual rather than another.

According to many Marxists influenced by Soviet Marxism, historical materialism is a specifically sociological method, while dialectical materialism refers to a more general, abstract, philosophy.

According to Strauss, historicism " rejects political philosophy " and is rooted in the belief that " all human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

According to Daniel Boyarin, the underlying distinction between religion and ethnicity is foreign to Judaism itself, and is one form of the dualism between spirit and flesh that has its origin in Platonic philosophy and that permeated Hellenistic Judaism.

According to Hufeland, macrobiotics is a medical philosophy on a higher level than the curative, preventative, or health levels of medicine.

According to the philosophy of the Indian religions it is the final uprooting of these formations that characterizes and defines the experience of liberation ( moksha ).

According to Islamic philosophy of war, the areas under Islamic rule were to be abodes of peace and the other areas abodes of war.

According to the Hindu philosophy the essence of God or Brahman can never be understood or known since Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally ' understands ' a given concept or object.

According to Phillips, the question of whether or not God exists cannot be " objectively " answered by philosophy because the categories of truth and falsity, which are necessary for asking the question, have no application in the religious contexts wherein religious belief has its sense and meaning.

According to Proclus, philosophy is the activity which can liberate the soul from a subjection to bodily passions, remind it of its origin in Soul, Intellect, and the One, and prepare it not only to ascend to the higher levels while still in this life, but to avoid falling immediately back into a new body after death.

According to Steiner, he also introduced Steiner to a person that Steiner only identified as a “ Master ”, and who had a great influence on Steiner's subsequent development, in particular directing him to study Fichte's philosophy.

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 ( taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and / or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students ) 44. 9 % of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20. 7 % accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13. 8 % epistemic theories.

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Solovyov thought, “ Although empiricism and rationalism (= idealism ) rest on false principles, their respective objective contents, external experience, qua the foundation of natural science, and logical thought, qua the foundation of pure philosophy, are to be synthesized or encompassed along with mystical knowledge in ' integral knowledge ,' what Solovyov terms ' theosophy.