The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara reveals the complex cultural influences — from Scytho-Parthian to Greco-Roman traditions — that fed the extraordinary artistic production of this ...

This Bodhisattva belongs to the corpus of Buddhist schist statues from the ancient territory of Gandhara ... was mixed with Hellenistic and Greco-Roman traditions of sculpture to produce some ...

Christian Luczanits, a leading scholar of Gandharan art, discusses how changing perceptions of the Buddha and bodhisattvas in Gandhara played an instrumental role in the development of Mahayana ...

As the Buddhist message spread north, it passed into the region known as Gandhara, the area in what ... known Buddhist symbols found in Indian art. In the sculpture Buddha's fingers stand in ...