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Gandharan Bodhisattva head
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Harking Back: Lahore’s oldest known ruler and ten centuries of Buddhism
He ruled in the 6th century BC and technically was king of the ‘Iron-Age Indo-Aryan kingdom of Gandhara’ as Wikipedia describes him. One Pali source describes him as a Brahmin with immense ...
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Episode Transcript – Episode 41 - Seated Buddha from Gandhara
As the Buddhist message spread north, it passed into the region known as Gandhara, the area in what is now north-eastern Pakistan, around Peshawar, in the foothills of the Himalayas. From the ...
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The Economist Hails Gandhara Exhibition's 'Unusual East-West Syncretism'
The exhibition is phenomenal not just in its scope—featuring some of the earliest and most rare pieces from the Gandhara region, which surrounds present-day Peshawar and eastern Afghanistan — but also ...
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Three-day Int’l Gandhara Symposium begins in Islamabad tomorrow
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. A three-day International Gandhara symposium is commencing in Islamabad tomorrow to showcase treasure trove Gandhara ...
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China-Pakistan joint exhibition showcasing cultural art of Gandhara enters final phase
The three-month long China-Pakistan joint exhibition offering a glimpse of the ancient Gandhara art and culture has entered its final phase at the Palace Museum in Beijing. The exhibition titled ...
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Gandharan Bodhisattva head
This Bodhisattva belongs to the corpus of Buddhist schist statues from the ancient territory of Gandhara, which lay north of the Indus and south of Pamirs. This region, also known as the ...