The Sanskrit term Aśokaśrī can be transliterated into English as Asokasri or Ashokashri, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Aśokaśrī (अशोकश्री) is the name of the Buddha of the Sarvaśokāpagata universe according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XV). Accordingly, “In the south (dakṣiṇa), beyond universes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges and at the extreme limit of these universes, there is the universe called Li yi ts’ie yeou (Sarvaśokāpagata); its Buddha is named Wou yeou tö (Aśokaśrī) and its Bodhisattva Li yeou (Vigataśoka)”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beings

Aśokaśrī (अशोकश्री) refers to one of the “Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas” (Tibetan: ltung bshags kyi sangs rgyas so lnga) according to various sources in Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism such as the Triskandhadharma-Sutra and the Ratnakuta-Sutra.—These texts describe the practice of purification by confession and making prostrations to these Buddhas [e.g., Aśokaśrī] while incorporating visualization techniques using a variety of iconographic depictions. The purpose of such practice is to purify negative karma.

Aśokaśrī is also known in Tibetan as: Nya ngen mepé pal [Wylie: mya ngan med pa'i dpal]

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Aśokaśrī (अशोकश्री).—(1) m., name of a Buddha: Śikṣāsamuccaya 169.12; (in the south) Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 32.1 (misprinted Aśīka°); (2) f., name of a deity of the bodhisattva-saṃgīti-prāsāda in Kapilavastu: Gaṇḍavyūha 385.19.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Aśokaśrī (अशोकश्री):—[=a-śoka-śrī] [from a-śoka] m. Name of a son of Bindu-sāra, [Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Shri, Ashoka.

Full-text: Thirty-five Buddhas of Confession, Sarvashokapagata, Nya ngen mepe pal, Mya ngan med pa'i dpal, Vigatashoka.

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