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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other East Asian countries. "The Buddhist art of Gandhara has amazed and ...

The Directorate of Archaeology and Museums and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government have expressed commitment to make the province a tourist center by restoring and preserving the rich heritage of the ...

The artistry dates back 2,000 years to the Buddhist period of the Gandhara region. But many shops shut down when the Taliban occupied the region in 2007. The Mustaan family fled Swat and ...