Dialogues with Death: The Last Days of Socrates and The Buddha

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Dialogues with Death: The Last Days of Socrates and the Buddha
Author(s): Matthew Dillon
Source: Philosophy East and West, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 525-558
Published by: University of Hawai’i Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1400282 .
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DIALOGUES WITH DEATH: THE LAST DAYS
OF SOCRATES AND THE BUDDHA