Kushan ruler Kanishka (flourished ca. 78-ca. 103 A.D.) controlled an empire covering most of India, Iran, and central Asia in the first and second centuries. With his conversion to and official support of Mahayana Buddhism, the religion underwent a...

fl. A.D. 78?-103? Chinese Ruler Kanishka is considered to be one of the most significant and important rulers of the Kushan Kingdom, an area that included the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and possibly regions north of Kashmir...

An Indo-Scythian king who was instrumental in spreading Mahāyāna Bsm. in India and Afghanistan (c. A.D. 80). He was a convert to Bsm. of M. School and convened the great Council at Purusapura (Peshawar) at which Asvaghosha is said to have...

Kanishka (Kushan language: Κανηϸκι, Ancient Chinese: 迦腻色伽) was a king of the Kushan Empire in South Asia, ruling an empire extending from northern India to Central Asia in the 2nd century of the common era, famous for his military,...