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Gandhara

American  
[guhn-dahr-uh] / gʌnˈdɑr ə /

noun

  1. an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.


adjective

  1. Also Gandharan of or relating to Gandhara, its inhabitants, or its art.

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The people of Gandhara produced a unique artistic style, incorporating Greco-Roman elements but focused on Buddhist subjects.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

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

And even Amidism appears to have originated not in the Far East but in Gandhara and the adjacent lands.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot

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