Gandhara
Americannoun
adjective
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Originally from Gandhara, Lokaksema was a Buddhist scholar who spent his time in China at the court of the Han dynasty, translating Mahayana Buddhist texts with his students.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The people of Gandhara produced a unique artistic style, incorporating Greco-Roman elements but focused on Buddhist subjects.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is a room dedicated to the art of Gandhara, the ancient region that straddled present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021
One of the more high-profile transactions involved the sale of her mother Doris Wiener’s collection of hundreds of sculpture and paintings from Gandhara, the Himalayas, India and Southeast Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2016
Fa-Hsien had seen it at Purushapura, which Eitel says was "the ancient capital of Gandhara."
From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian, ca. 337-422
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