Gandhara
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
When the monks left Kito, they were obliged to cross the Hindoo-Koosh mountains, lying between Turkestan and the Gandhara, the cold being so intense that one of their party sank under it.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora
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