Curated category
2nd-century Buddhist monks
- Lokaksema (Buddhist monk)A man named Lokakshema arrived in the Han capital of Luoyang during the second century. His name appears in Chinese records as Loujiachen, yet scholars…
- An ShigaoThe name An Shigao carries a prefix that has puzzled historians for centuries. Some scholars believe the character An abbreviates Anxi, the Chinese…
- NagarjunaIndia in the first and second centuries CE was politically divided into various states, including the Kushan Empire and the Satavahana Kingdom.