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 ...

These Buddha images are dated to around the 4th – the 6th centuries in the present era. All colossal Bamiyan statues had been sculpted by those who advocated Mahayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism it ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The sculptures are enlarged fragments of headless Gandhara Buddha statues from the artist's collection. Some are in velvety charcoal black, others in muted beige. A few torsos have the words ...

Some of the first human images of Buddha first appeared in Pakistan, notes The Economist in its October 20 feature "The beauty of ancient globalization," covering Asia Society Museum's much ...