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,...

In his recent gallery installation, "Birth of an Earth," Kanishka Raja showed three large paintings (60 by 84 inches each, oil on canvas over panel) and one smaller piece (26 by 35 1/2 inches, oil on inkjet print on canvas). In addition, he...

At first, you'll recognize where you are in Kanishka Raja's painting installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art. A window on the right side of the work mirrors the arched window to your left, looking out over Boylston Street. The crisscrossing modernist lines of...