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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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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Shanti Mantras (category Hindu mantras)
which some of the notable ones are: Ashtanga vinyasa yoga Hindu astrology Inner peace Lokaksema Om Namah Shivaya Sanctuary (Donna De Lory album) The Waste...
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Missionary (section Hindu missions)
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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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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Central Asian translators of Buddhist scriptures, such as An Shigao or Lokaksema. During the 3rd-century BCE era of Ashoka, vihara yatras were travel stops...
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Tantrism (in Chinese: 怛特罗 Dátèluō or 怛特罗密教 Dátèluó mìjiào; which may include Hindu forms of religion): 3 has undergone a revitalisation since the 1980s together...
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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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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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It is a great site of pilgrimage, where Indians from very far come with prayers. At the foot of this mountain is another temple for Mahesvara where ceremonies...
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