Gandhāran Buddhism was the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra, which was a major center of Buddhism in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE. [1][2] Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan, mainly the Peshawar valley and Potohar plateau as well as Afghanistan 's Jalalabad.

The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire. Statues of the …

Gandhara art, style of Buddhist visual art that developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the 1st century bce and the 7th century ce. The style, of Greco-Roman origin, seems to have flourished largely during the Kushan dynasty and was contemporaneous with an important but dissimilar school of Kushan art at ...

The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara, located in the northwestern fringe of the Indian subcontinent.

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Ancient Gandhara was a vibrant crossroads between the classical cultures of the Mediterranean region and those of South Asia, reflected in the Graeco-Buddhist art of the area. The boundaries have been redrawn numerous times due to shifting geopolitical control in the region.

The earliest signs of Buddhism in Gandhara are two rock-cut edicts commissioned by the Mauryan king Ashoka during the third century BCE. The oldest surviving Buddhist artworks and inscriptions on reliquaries in Gandhara, however, date from around the time of the birth of Christ.

The serene and magnificent Buddha sculpture made of Black schist stone is one of the masterpieces of the Gandhara art at the National Museum, New Delhi. It belongs to the Kushana Dynasty and dates back to 2nd century CE (as per the National Museum Publication) / 5th century CE (as per the caption inside the museum).

Gandhāran Buddhism refers to the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra which was a major center of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE. [1][2] Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan, mainly the Peshawar valley and Potohar plateau as well as Afghanistan 's Jalalabad.

Title: Head of the Buddha, c. 100–300 C.E., Kushan dynasty, dark grey schist, made in Gandhara, Pakistan, 38.7 x 23.50 (© Trustees of the British Museum) Positioned at the ‘crossroads of Asia’, Gandhara has always been an ancient transit zone; it was certainly well known to the Greeks in the fifth century B.C.E.