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see
FIVE KS
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Kangyur
:

see
KANJUR
.

 
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(1858–1927).
Leading figure in the Chinese Reform Movement which followed defeat in the Sino-Japanese war, 1894–5. His
Chronological Autobiography
shows that he was early dissatisfied with maintaining traditional ways and ideas. He had an enlightenment experience of the one nature of all appearances (including his own), and withdrew into isolation where a sense of mission formed to offer a way of salvation to the world. He wrote
Ta t’ung shu
and
K’ung Tzu kai-chih k’ao
(Confucius as a Reformer). In 1898 he was invited to take charge of government by the emperor. He set about reform, but his twenty-seven reform edicts provoked a conservative
coup d’état
in favour of the empress dowager, Tzu Hsi. Forced overseas, he continued to oppose the Republic, but lived circumspectly when he returned to China.

 
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K’an-hua ch’an
(k
an-gazing Ch’an)
.

Chin. for
Kanna Zen
; see
HUNG-CHIH
;
TA-HUI
.

 
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Kani
ka
.

1
A king of the
aka-K
na period (
c.
78–144 CE), who ruled over the west of N. India, and some parts of Central Asia, about 78–102. Buddhist tradition celebrates him as a great patron of Buddhism, a view borne out by historical and archaeological evidence.
Under his patronage, the G
ndhara school of art flourished. His court included such Buddhist luminaries as
A
vagho
a
,
N
g
rjuna
, P
r
va, and Vasumitra, as well as the physician Caraka, the politician M
hara, and the Greek engineer Agesilaus, who designed and built a famous
st
pa