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	Kanishka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanishka (Kushan language: ΚΑΝΗϷΚΙ, Ancient Chinese: 迦腻色伽) was a king of the Kushan Empire in South Asia, in the 2nd century of the common era, famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements.
		Kanishka was the successor of Vima Kadphises, as demonstrated by an impressive geneaology of the Kushan kings, known as the Rabatak inscription.
		Depictions of the "Shakyamuni Buddha" (with legend ϷΑΚΑΜΑΝΟ ΒΟΔΔΟ "Shakamano Boddo") in Kanishka's coinage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanishka (2410 words)

	Kanishka - LoveToKnow 1911
		KANISHKA, king of Kabul, Kashmir, and north-western India in the 2nd century A.D., was a Tatar of the Kushan tribe, one of the five into which the Yue-chi Tatars were divided.
		Kanishka's predecessors on the throne were Pagans; but shortly after his accession he professed himself, probably from political reasons, a Buddhist.
		King Kanishka had these treatises, when completed and revised by Asvaghosha, written out on copper plates, and enclosed the latter in stone boxes, which he placed in a memorial mound.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kanishka (572 words)

	King Kanishka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Through inheritance and conquest, Kanishka's kingdom covered an area extending from Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan) in the west to Patna in the Ganges Valley in the east, and from the Pamirs (now in Tajikistan) in the north to central India in the south.
		Kanishka was a tolerant king and his coins show that he honoured the Zoroastrian, Greek, and Brahmanic deities as well as the Buddha.
		During his reign contacts with the Roman Empire led to a significant increase in trade and the exchange of ideas; perhaps the most remarkable example of the fusion of eastern and western influences in his reign was the Gandhara school of art, in which Greco-Roman classical lines are seen in images of the Buddha.
	www.afghan-network.net /Rulers/kanishka.html (337 words)

	King Kanishka
		Kanishka, probable successor of Wima Kadphises II[?] was the greatest of the Kushana[?] kings.
		According to the Chinese scholar Huan Tsang, Kanishka ascended to the throne 400 years after the death of Buddha.
		Kanishka personally seems to have embraced both Buddhism and the Persian Mithras cult.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/King_Kanishka.html (477 words)

	Kushan Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rule of Kanishka I, the second great Kushan emperor, fifth Kushan king, who flourished for at least 28 years from c. 127, was administered from two capitals: Purushapura (now Peshawar in northern Pakistan) and Mathura, in northern India.
		According to the Rabatak inscription, Kanishka was the son of Vima Kadphises, the grandson of Vima Taktu, and the great-grandson of Kujula Kadphises.
		Along with the Indian emperors Ashoka and Harsha Vardhana and the Indo-Greek king Menander I (Milinda), Kanishka is considered by Buddhism as one of its greatest benefactors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kushans (2320 words)

	Buddhist Kingdoms
		CHAPTER V. It happened that the king of the country was then holding the pancha parishad, that is, in Chinese, the great quinquennial assembly.[1] When this is to be held, the king requests the presence of the Sramans from all quarters (of his kingdom).
		The king knew that the time for an association between himself and the bowl had not yet arrived,[7] and was sad and deeply ashamed of himself.
		The king of the country, revering and honouring the bone, and anxious lest it should be stolen away, has selected eight individuals, representing the great families in the kingdom, and committing to each a seal, with which he should seal (its shrine) and guard (the relic).
	www.russbo.com /Foundations/buddhist_kingdoms.htm (17136 words)

	India, 320 BCE to 120 CE
		The king of Bactria, Demetrius, followed the footsteps of Alexander through the Khyber Pass and extended his power into the northern Indus Valley, where he began what was to become a series of wars between the Greeks and Indians.
		Kanishka's empire prospered economically, and it is said that to his court, from all over Asia, the wealth and wisdom of Kanishka attracted merchants, artists, poets and musicians.
		Kanishka became a patron of Buddhism, and Buddhists would rank him as one of their own and with Asoka and Menander as a great king.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch13.htm (5246 words)

	Arguments on the date of the ascension of the Great Kushan King Kanishka.
		So Kanishka began an era, at the start of his reign (in fact a recent inscription demonstrates this) and it was used by the kings who followed him.
		Rudradaman the Indian king can be dated to the region 130 - 150 AD and in his Andhau Inscription he claims control of areas in the lower Indus valley also claimed in the Sui Vihar inscription for Kanishka.
		In concluding it would seem likely that Kanishkas reign fell in the first half of the second century and I am inclined to feel a date in the 110's fits most easily in that it neither pushes the longevity of Kajulas descendents to extreme limits nor pulls Vasudevas reign back beyond what is credulous.
	www.keele.ac.uk /socs/ks45/PageHistory/Club/bracey/Kushan/digressions/Kanishka.htm (1332 words)

	For Gandharan Art's Sake
		Kanishka also annexed three provinces of the Chinese empire, and was the only Indian king to ever rule over these territories.
		Kanishka historically played the part of a second Ashoka to the Indian people, and as a result, the Buddhist arts once again evolved and flourished in brave new places like Gandhara and Mathura.
		Buddhism rapidly spread to Central Asia and China under Kanishka's auspicies, and he is historically noted for having convened the fourth great Buddhist council in Kashmir that marked the beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism.
	members.porchlight.ca /blackdog/kanishka.htm (1077 words)

	:: CORPORATE PROFILE :: KANISHKA'S -- Kushan's India Pvt.Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kanishka’s was born on this day in a small apartment in the bye-lanes of south Kolkata to Nandita and Dilip Raja.
		Kanishka’s was a belief, a passion to which the young couple had poured in its entire savings.
		Kanishka’s has mastered the block printing technique to such an extent that block printing and Kanishka’s are synonymous now.
	www.kanishkas.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=cProfile.main (295 words)

	The Utilization of Buddhism in Kushan Politics and Economy Under Kanishka I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kanishka I followed the reign of Vima Kadphises and is the most charismatic ruler of all the Kushan kings.
		Kanishka must have known that the legends existed and may have seen them as beneficial to his reign; there would be no reason for him to object to free propaganda, and allowing them to spread through the imaginations of his people.
		Instead of a textual method to connect Kanishka and the Buddha, visual representations are used: the Buddha sits atop of the piece while Kanishka stands erect in all his kingly glory.
	neareasternstudies.tripod.com /id13.html (4468 words)

	Chronology of Ancient India: The Era of the Kushan King Kanishka
		Kanishka is the most famous of the Kushan kings, he is preserved in Bhuddist tradition as the king responsible for calling the second great Bhuddist council.
		However, it is possible that Kanishka is not the king responsible, in which case some other date would have to be proposed.
		It is important to understand the sequence of the Kushan kings, since this is central to all of the arguments.
	www.kushan.org /essays/chronology/kanishka.htm (4081 words)

	A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fa-hsien (chapter12)
		When the king’s tope was completed, the little tope (of the boy) came out from its side on the south, rather more than three cubits in height.
		Kanishka appeared, and began to reign, early in our first century, about A.D. He was the last of three brothers, whose original seat was in Yueh-she, immediately mentioned, or Tukhara.
		Jambudvipa is one of the four great continents of the universe, representing the inhabited world as fancied by the Buddhists, and so called because it resembles in shape the leaves of the jambu tree.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /f/fa-hien/f15l/chapter12.html (1233 words)

	Arun, Who?
		In 190 BC the king of Bactria crosses over to India (Mauryan empire declining) and brings whole of north-west India (Gandharan and Punjab) under his control.
		Kanishka is a Ruthless ruler, never satisfied, but is a great patron of art.
		Harsha Vadhana becomes king of Thaneshwar (near Delhi) at 16 and soon after goes on a 6 year long relentless campaign to bring all the small kindoms under his rule.
	www.arunwho.com /?cat=History&todo=read (1131 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism
		It is generally thought that Kanishka reigned during the second century, though differing accounts place his ascension between 78 and 144.
		Though Kanishka greatly honored Buddhism, he is said to have protected the teachings of Zoroastrianism and Hinduism as well.
		The coins used during Kanishka's reign are engraved with images of Iranian, Greek, and Brahmanic deities.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/dictionary/define?tid=2171 (375 words)

	The Amitabha Buddhism gospel
		Kanishka followed with his eye the graceful movements of the princess and breathed a prayer: “Adoration to the Buddha!”; he said to himself in the silent recesses of his heart.
		While King Kanishka thus idled away the time the prime minister felt uneasy, for his fellow conspirators, the generals from the south, were waiting for the signal to overpower the few foreign guards, to close the gates, and take possession of the palace.
		When the king finished the story of Prince Long-life, the hall was crowded with armed officers of the Gandhara army, and seeing his advantage, King Kanishka, feeling the satisfaction of one who had gained a great victory in battle, paused and glanced with a good-natured look over the party of conspirators.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /sacredscripts/amitabha.htm (14989 words)

	Buddhism in Kashmir
		Kanishka is remembered in the history of Buddhism like the great king Ashoka.
		Tibetian King Shiyan Shung's son Jnanprabha was a Buddhist and he did not see eye to eye with the Tibetian form of Tantarika Buddhism.
		King Ashoka (different from the great King Ashoka of Maurya dynasty) had built a' stupa' in today's Budgam; queen Shukdevi had built a Vihara in Srinagar at a place named ' Nadvana '.
	www.koausa.org /Crown/buddhism.html (2875 words)

	History of Afghanistan
		The revival of the ancient religion of Buddhism by Kanishka and the attendant emergence of Gandhara art are enduring mani-festations of Kushan culture.
		Buddhist iconography is, for instance, totally lacking at Kanishka's own temple at Surkh Kotal, just north of the Hindu Kush.
		A layer of ash at Surkh Kotal speaks silently of the end of this brilliant era and the beginning of an age characterized by warring petty kingdoms.
	www.afghanan.net /afghanistan/kushans.htm (980 words)

	A Concise History of India, Chapter 2
		Under its greatest king, Kanishka (78-102 A.D.?--all of Kushan's dates are uncertain), Kushan's rule stretched from the Caspian Sea to Khotan in northwest China, and as far east as Benares in India.
		Kanishka was also a great patron of Buddhism; in his reign it was both reformed and introduced to China.
		Genealogies of the kings after Skandagupta disagree considerably, so it is a safe guess to say that the empire was already in pieces by this time.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /india/in02.html (3178 words)

	Coins, Art, and Chronology: Cribb page 1
		The most important revelation of the document, from the point of view of chronology, are its solution of the Soter Megas question and its confirmation of the early Chinese account of the origins of Kushan rule under the leadership of Kujula Kadphises and the Kushan expansion into India in the reign of his son.
		As exciting as the revelation of a new king might be, in many ways it is the context in which this name appears that is the most important contribution to Kushan history.
		The reign after Kanishka I is confirmed as that of Huvishka by a die link between a late coin of Kanishka I (Gobl 1984: no. 80) and an early coin of Huvishka (Gobl 1984: no. 314).
	www.grifterrec.com /y/cribb/ekk_cribb_01.html (2490 words)

	Arnold Lieberman on Asianart.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This imposing sculpture of a King should be compared with the portrait of Kanishka in the Government Museum, Mathura, which dates from AD 78 - AD 101.
		The tunic and trousers derive from Scythian origin but differ from the Kanishka and Castana sculptures in Mathura in that the skirt is pleated with an overlapped hem.
		Coins that were issued with a comparable stance and likeness of King Kanishka I are integral in defining the dates of his reign, though there are few extant life-size sculptures of the first king of the Kushana Empire.
	www.asianart.com /lieberman/gallery1/d739.html (227 words)

	VOGELSANG, Willem (2002) The Afghans, Oxford, Blackwell
		One of the most renowned Kushan kings was Kanishka, who reigned in the second century AD and has become known in Buddhist sources as a great propagator of the Buddhist faith.
		The copper coins of this ‘nameless king’ are known from a wide area stretching from Bactria in the northwest to Mathura in northern India, and he actually was the Kushan ruler who introduced a uniform coinage system all over the empire.
		The legends of Kanishka’s early coins are in Greek script and language, but on his later coins, the Greek script is used to write Bactrian.
	www.upf.es /materials/huma/central/historia/xinamon/virtuals/vogels.htm (4611 words)

	Dharma Fellowship: Library - Monastic Buddhism in the Medieval Period and the 84 Mahasiddhas
		Around 78 AD2 the Kushan king Kanishka finally consolidated much of Afghanistan and much of the northern region of India, including Kashmir, under his dominion.
		Between the time of Kanishka up until the dawn of what we are calling the Medieval Period three great intellectual movements appear to take place in Buddhism.
		King Laksavara invited teachers and monks of the Mahayana tradition to reside in the monasteries that he established there.
	www.dharmafellowship.org /library/essays/monastic-buddhism-medieval-period.htm (5702 words)

	Afghanistan
		Rock inscriptions of King Ashoka were found in both Greek and Aramaic languages in Laghman and Kandahar.
		The great Kushan King, Kanishka (130 AD), who originated from the Nomadic tribes of Central Asia that invaded Bactria, established an empire, which extended from Gobi desert to Ganges Valley.
		King Kanishka called a council of Buddhist scholars in Kashmir, which decided to humanize Buddhism in order to gain popularity over Brahmanism.
	www.vepachedu.org /Afghanistan.html (951 words)

	kushans.html
		The most famous king of the Kushans, is Kanishka I. He is shown in some ancient statues, but not very much detail about him is available.
		Kanishka I was a tolerant king and honoured the Zoroastrian, Greek and Brahmani deities as well as the Buddhist religion.
		Kanishka encouraged 2 forms of Art, the Gandhara Buddhist art coming down from the Mauryan days and the Mathura.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/kushans.html (1235 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to scholars, Gor Khutree is the site of the monastery of King Kanishka, where the unique arm bowl of Lord Buddha was once exhibited, a report in the Daily Times said.
		King Babar visited it in the early 16th century.
		Earlier, the relic casket of King Kanishka, excavated from Shah Ji Ki Dheri, now Mehbooba Dheri near Gunj Gate, by British scholars, brought to light that the city was known as Kanishka Pura around 1st century A.D. Sikh Governor Avitabile used to live at Gor Khutree in 1838-42.
	www.hindunet.org /onps/showarticle.php?pb=29&ag=5&a=13409 (279 words)

	indiayogi.com - Holy Cities - Mathura - The Playground Of Krishna - Lord Vishnu, Krishna,Vrindavan,Shatrugna,The King ...
		Hindu mythology claims that Mathura was founded by Shatrugna, the youngest brother of another incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Rama, the King of Ayodhya and hero of the Ramayana.
		They were imprisoned because their eighth son, Krishna, was prophesied to kill his maternal uncle, the evil King Kansa.
		According to legend, King Kansa and his courtiers could not enter the region because they were cursed by a Rishi that they would turn into stone if they did so, hence this was a safe place of residence for young Krishna.
	www.indiayogi.com /content/holycities/mathura.asp (2635 words)

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