Lokeśvararāja, was the 54th Buddha in the history of existence, according to the Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life, long before Shakyamuni Buddha came and established what we know as Buddhism.^[1] He is known for teaching the Dharma to King Dharmakara, who was so impressed that he became a monk, and later achieved Enlightenment himself as Amitabha Buddha.

• Inagaki Hisao, trans., Stewart, Harold (2003). The Three Pure Land Sutras, 2nd ed., Berkeley, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. ISBN 1-886439-18-4