From Gandhara the main route ran west through ... But for the moment, let's end with this statue of the Buddha, the thing which leads us to no thing, nothing . . . and to the greatest sound ...

All colossal Bamiyan statues had been sculpted by those who advocated Mahayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism it is believed had its birth in the Bamiyan part of the Gandhara region. Professor Perera ...

This Bodhisattva belongs to the corpus of Buddhist schist statues from ... to depict the Gautama Buddha in the first century of the Common Era. Carving from soft schist, Gandhara's sculptors ...

She added that Gandhara was the second holy site of Buddhism and it was the place from where the religion spread to other parts of the world. “Historians believe that the first statue of Buddha ...

Some of the first human images of Buddha first appeared in Pakistan ... Society Museum's much talked-about exhibition The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara, on view through October 30.

"In Yungang Grottoes, the Gandhara or even Greek elements are visible on many Buddha statues, like the curly hair and details of clothes," he added. "After the communication and integration among ...

From Gandhara the main route ran west through ... But for the moment, let's end with this statue of the Buddha, the thing which leads us to no thing, nothing . . . and to the greatest sound ...