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Kingdom of Dambadeniya: 1220 CE 1345 CE Dambadeniya, Yapahuwa, Polonnaruwa, Kurunagala: Sinhala Sri Lanka: Kingdom of Gampola: 1341 CE 1408 CE Gampola: Sinhala: Kingdom of Kotte: 1412 CE 1597 CE Kotte: Sinhala: Kingdom of Sitawaka: 1521 CE 1594 CE Sitawaka: Sinhala: Kingdom of Kandy: 1469 CE 1815 CE Kandy: Sinhala, Tamil
The Kingdom of Khotan was one of the earliest Buddhist kingdoms in the area and helped transmit Buddhism from India to China. [ 88 ] The Kushan Empire 's unification of most of this area and their support of Buddhism allowed it to easily spread along the trade routes of the region throughout Central Asia. [ 77 ]
Buddhist kingship refers to the beliefs and practices with regard to kings and queens in traditional Buddhist societies, as informed by Buddhist teachings. This is expressed and developed in Pāli and Sanskrit literature , early , later, as well as vernacular, and evidenced in epigraphic findings.
The ten realms are part of Buddhist cosmology and consist of four higher realms and six lower realms derived from the Indian concept of the six realms of rebirth. [3]These realms can also be described through the degrees of enlightenment that course through them. [4]
One of the first representations of the Buddha, 1st-2nd century AD, Gandhara: Standing Buddha (Tokyo National Museum).. Buddhism in Central Asia began with the syncretism between Western Classical Greek philosophy and Indian Buddhism in the Hellenistic successor kingdoms to Alexander the Great's empire (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom 250 BCE-125 BCE and Indo-Greek Kingdom 180 BCE - 10 CE), spanning ...
List of Buddhist kingdoms and empires; Buddhism in Lithuania; M. Buddhism in the Maldives; Buddhism in Malaysia; Buddhism in Mexico; Buddhism in the Middle East;
In Chinese Buddhism, all four of the heavenly kings are regarded as four of the Twenty Devas (二十諸天 Èrshí Zhūtiān) or the Twenty-Four Devas (二十四諸天 Èrshísì zhūtiān), a group of Buddhist dharmapalas who manifest to protect the Dharma. [1] Statues of the Four Heavenly Kings.
The Mataram kingdom (/ m ɑː t ɑː r ɑː m /, [2] Javanese: ꦩꦠꦫꦩ꧀, Javanese pronunciation:); also known as Medang kingdom was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries. It was based in Central Java, and later in East Java.