Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p An Shigao (Chinese: 安世高 Ān Shìgāo) (in the Wade–Giles transcription system, An Shih-kao) (?-~168 AD) was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his claim to the royal throne of Parthia in order to serve as a Buddhist missionary monk in China.The prefix An in An Shigao's name has raised many questions and hypotheses as to his origin and story. Some believe that it is an abbreviation of Anxi, the Chinese name given to the regions ruled by the Arsacids.. }
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- An_Shigao comment "An Shigao (Chinese: 安世高 Ān Shìgāo) (in the Wade–Giles transcription system, An Shih-kao) (?-~168 AD) was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his claim to the royal throne of Parthia in order to serve as a Buddhist missionary monk in China.The prefix An in An Shigao's name has raised many questions and hypotheses as to his origin and story. Some believe that it is an abbreviation of Anxi, the Chinese name given to the regions ruled by the Arsacids.".