The Sanskrit term Nāgavaṃśāgra can be transliterated into English as Nagavamsagra or Nagavamshagra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Nāgavaṃśāgra (नागवंशाग्र) is the name of a Buddha, according to the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter XLIV.—Accordingly, “in order to save beings, the Bodhisattva creates for himself a body of the noble Cakravartin king, of Śakra Devendra, of Brahmarāja, of a Śrāvaka, of a Pratyekabuddha, of a Bodhisattva or of Buddha.—Thus, in the Cheou-leng-yen king (Śūraṃgamasamādhisūtra), Mañjuśrī himself said that he appeared as a Pratyekabuddha 7,200,000 times and entered into nirvāṇa, that he also manifests under the aspect of a Buddha named Long-tchong-tsouen (Nāgavaṃśāgra)”.

Notes: As for the Buddha Nāgavaṃśāgra (in Chinese Long-tchong-tsouen, in Tibetan Kluḥi rigs mchog), identical with the ‘actual’ Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, he reigned at a distant past over the Samā universe, on the borders of the southern region (cf. Śūraṃgamasamādhi).

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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.

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