Editing Gandhari language (section)

==Translations from Gāndhāri==
Mahayana Buddhist [[Buddhist texts#Pure Land Sūtras|Pure Land sūtras]] were brought from Gandhāra to [[China]] as early as 147 CE, when the [[Kushan Empire|Kushan]] monk [[Lokaksema (Buddhist monk)|Lokakṣema]] began translating the first Buddhist sutras into Chinese.{{sfn|Lancaster|Park|1979|p=24}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lancaster|first1=Lewis R.|title=The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue|url=http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue/files/k0024.html|website=www.acmuller.net|access-date=4 September 2017}}</ref> The earliest of these translations show evidence of having been translated from Gāndhārī.{{sfn|Mukherjee|1996|p=15}} It is also known that manuscripts in the Kharoṣṭhī script existed in China during this period.{{sfn|Nakamura|1987|p=205}}