kanishka i circa 100 140 ad

གོང་གི་དུས་རབས་དེར་ཀ་ཎིཥྐ་ཡིས་སེར་ཊམ་དུ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་བརྙན་དང་བུདྡོ་ནི་ཡ་ཝ་ནའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་༼in Greek ༽སུ་སྣང་བ།

“Kushan ruler Kanishka (flourished c. 78-c. 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 period of substantial growth, gaining converts throughout the Kushan realm, including parts of China. This growth was attended by a blossoming of Buddhist iconography, sculpture, and architecture.”