Gandhara (IAST: Gandhāra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan [1] civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. ... The stupa was built during the Kushan era to house Buddhist relics and was among the tallest buildings in the ancient world. [114] [115] [116]

In Gandhara a unique type of stupa developed. The drum is elevated and rests on a square podium. Sometimes lion columns mark the four corners of the podium, and Corinthian pilasters are added to the base and drum. Gandharan stupas also frequently featured large, richly decorated false dormers.

Dharmarajika Stupa: 100 BCE-500 CE This Gandharan stupa was located in Taxila, Pakistan and was likely originally patroned by Asoka. It is believed that “Asoka was once governor of Gandhara in Taxila and expectedly that he must have built some monuments…. thus Dharmarajika could be one of his many dharmarajikas”(Le, 174).

Early Mahayana Buddhist triad. From left to right, a Kushan devotee, Maitreya, the Buddha, Avalokitesvara, and a Buddhist monk. 2nd–3rd century, Gandhara Evolution of the Butkara stupa Because the region was at a cultural crossroads, the art of the Gandhāran Buddhists was a fusion of Greco-Roman, Iranian and Indian styles. [4] Initially, Buddhist art was aniconic, but Greco-Roman influences ...

2015年7月7日 · The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. ... One of the most well-known remains is the Double-Headed Eagle stupa in Sirkap which contains its namesake motif of the double-headed eagle affixed on three different types of ...

Amluk-Dara stupa is located in the Swat valley and is a part of Gandhara civilization at Amluk-Dara. The stupa is believed to have been built in the third century. The stupa was first discovered by a Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein in 1926. It was later studied by Domenico Faccena in the 1960s and 1970s.

Gandhara is the ancient name of a region in northwest Pakistan bounded on the west by the Hindu Kush mountain range and to the north by the foothills of the Himalayas. ... a Buddhist center was comprised of monastic housing adjacent to a public sacred area that had at its center a stupa (a solid domed structure) ...

The Shingerdar stupa in Ghalegay, near Peshawar. Gandhāra (T. sa 'dzin ས་འཛིན་; jiantuolo 健馱羅) was an ancient region comprising Kabul, Peshawar, Swat, and Taxila areas of what are now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. The cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus River into the Potohar ...

2021年3月4日 · The territory of Gandhara is spanning over a vast area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa., Taxila valley (northern Punjab), lower Indus valley and whole of Kashmir. ... elements in Gandhara art and architecture to enhance its beauty .As the life story of Buddha has been depicted in Gandhara art and architecture so stupa was the very first monument erected ...

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. Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan, mainly the Peshawar valley and Potohar plateau as well as Afghanistan's Jalalabad.The region has yielded the Gandhāran Buddhist texts written in ...