• Lokaksema (lit. 'people well-being') may refer to: Lokaksema (Hindu prayer), a reference in Hindu prayers Lokaksema (Buddhist monk), a 2nd-century Indian...
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  • Lokakṣema (लोकक्षेम, Chinese: 支婁迦讖; pinyin: Zhī Lóujiāchèn) (flourished 147–189) was a Kushan Buddhist monk from Gandhara who traveled to China during...
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  • Lokaksema or Lokakshema is a Sanskrit word meaning "global well-being". Loka means "world", and Kshema means "welfare" in Sanskrit. It is normally used...
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    a sutra is the Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra, translated into Chinese by Lokakṣema in 179 CE, with the discovery of a Gandhari language fragment of that...
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  • the notable ones are: Ashtanga vinyasa yoga Hindu astrology Inner peace Lokaksema Om Namah Shivaya Sanctuary (Donna De Lory album) The Waste Land Vivaah...
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    comes from early Chinese translations of Mahāyāna texts, mainly those of Lokakṣema. (2nd century CE). Some scholars have traditionally considered the earliest...
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    Fa Gu Shan Chung Tai Shan Key figures Nāgārjuna Ashvaghosha Āryadeva Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Asanga Vasubandhu Sthiramati Buddhapālita Dignāga Bhāvaviveka...
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  • Sūtra (Taishō Tripiṭaka, 313), which was first translated into Chinese by Lokakṣema by 186 CE. Although Abhirati emerged in the earliest era of Mahayana thought...
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    Mahāyāna texts. These Mahāyāna teachings were first propagated into China by Lokakṣema, the first translator of Mahāyāna Sūtras into Chinese during the second...
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    first known translations of Nikāya Buddhist texts into Chinese (148–170) Lokakṣema, a Kushan and the first to translate Mahāyāna scriptures into Chinese...
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    the Mahathupa in Anuradhapura, according to the Mahavamsa (Chap. XXIX); Lokaksema, a 2nd-century Kushan monk, travelled to the Chinese capital city of Luoyang...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts Four Buddhist Persecutions in China Major figures Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Sengzhao Jizang Paramartha Xuanzang Kuiji Woncheuk Daoxuan...
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    Mahāyāna Buddhism comes from the texts translated by the Indoscythian monk Lokakṣema in the 2nd century CE, who came to China from the kingdom of Gandhāra...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts Four Buddhist Persecutions in China Major figures Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Sengzhao Jizang Paramartha Xuanzang Kuiji Woncheuk Daoxuan...
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    (Wylie: gdugs dkar).[citation needed]. In 168-179 CE, the Gandharan monk Lokakṣema arrives in Han China and translates the Śūraṅgama Sūtra into Classical...
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    Gandhāra region to China as early as AD 147, with the work of Kushan monk Lokakṣema who translated important Mahayana sutras like the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā...
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    who translated works into Chinese, such as An Shigao from Parthia, and Lokaksema from Kushan-era Gandhara. In addition to tributary relations with the...
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  • into Chinese. The text suggests he was contemporary with the translator Lokakṣema, who lived in the second half of the second century CE during the Han...
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  • century AD by the Indo-Scythian translator Lokakṣema. Harrison points to the enthusiasm in the Lokakṣema sūtra corpus for the extra ascetic practices...
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    Fa Gu Shan Chung Tai Shan Key figures Nāgārjuna Ashvaghosha Āryadeva Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Asanga Vasubandhu Sthiramati Buddhapālita Dignāga Bhāvaviveka...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts Four Buddhist Persecutions in China Major figures Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Sengzhao Jizang Paramartha Xuanzang Kuiji Woncheuk Daoxuan...
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    Fa Gu Shan Chung Tai Shan Key figures Nāgārjuna Ashvaghosha Āryadeva Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Asanga Vasubandhu Sthiramati Buddhapālita Dignāga Bhāvaviveka...
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    1 August Emperor Huan of Han became emperor of the Han dynasty. 147 Lokaksema was born. 148 The Buddhist missionary An Shigao arrived in China. 166...
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    also taken into China brought by Kasyapa Matanga in the 2nd century CE, Lokaksema and An Shigao translated Buddhist sutras into Chinese. Dharmarakṣa was...
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    northern Asia from the middle of the 2nd century CE. The Kushan monk, Lokaksema (c. 178 CE), became the first translator of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts Four Buddhist Persecutions in China Major figures Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Sengzhao Jizang Paramartha Xuanzang Kuiji Woncheuk Daoxuan...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts Four Buddhist Persecutions in China Major figures Lokakṣema Kumārajīva Sengzhao Jizang Paramartha Xuanzang Kuiji Woncheuk Daoxuan...
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    Gandhāra region to China as early as 147 CE, when the Indo-Kushan monk Lokakṣema began translating the first Buddhist sūtras into Chinese. They include...
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    translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā by Lokakṣema (ca. 179 CE) whose source text is assumed to be in the Gāndhārī language; Lokakṣema's translation is also the first...
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    was followed by the extensive Mahayana translations of the Kushan monk Lokakṣema (Ch. 支婁迦讖, active c. 164–186 CE), as well as the work of Dharmarakṣa (3rd...
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