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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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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

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

Other knockouts include a resplendent gilded-bronze Padmapani, probably cast in Tibet by an artist from the Katmandu Valley, and a jumbo clay bodhisattva’s head from Gandhara.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2010

In Gandhara there were only a few Buddhists: more than a thousand monasteries stood untenanted and the Buddha's sacred bowl had vanished.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

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