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Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the site on 30 April 630, [26] [27] [28] and described Bamyan in the Da Tang Xiyu Ji as a flourishing Buddhist center "with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks". He also noted that both Buddha figures were "decorated with gold and fine jewels" (Wriggins, 1995).
Numerous ancient and medieval sites and artifacts, including the ancient cities of Nimrud and Hatra, parts of the wall of Nineveh, the ruins of Bash Tapia Castle and Dair Mar Elia, and artifacts from the Mosul Museum were also destroyed. However, from 2018, a year after IS was defeated and driven out of Mosul, many churches, mosques and ...
[41] [48] [44] Many monuments of ancient Indian civilization were destroyed by the invading armies, including Buddhist sanctuaries [49] near Benares. Buddhist monks who escaped the massacre fled to Nepal, Tibet and South India. [50] Tamerlane destroyed Buddhist establishments and raided areas in which Buddhism had flourished. [51] [52]
Unable to destroy the tooth the king converts to Buddhism and venerates the tooth. One hundred years prior to the visit of Xuanzang the Ephthalite Huns destroyed a number of relics in Kashmira and Gandhara. To escape one of the purges, a monk fled to India and paid pilgrimage to many sacred sites.
Borobudur's unique and significant architecture has been acknowledged by UNESCO as the largest Buddhist monument in the world. It is also the world's largest Buddhist temple [46] [47] as well as one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world. [48] A Jain stupa, Mathura, 1st century CE. A Jain stupa was excavated at Mathura in the 19th ...
The monuments at Sanchi today comprise a series of Buddhist monuments starting from the Mauryan Empire period (3rd century BCE), continuing with the Gupta Empire period (5th century CE), and ending around the 12th century CE. [5] It is probably the best preserved group of Buddhist monuments in India. [5]
The Vajrasana in the early 20th century. The Vajrasana, together with the remnants of the ancient temple built by Ashoka, was excavated by archaeologist Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893), who published his discovery and related research of the Mahabodhi Temple in his 1892 book Mahâbodhi, or the great Buddhist temple under the Bodhi tree at Buddha-Gaya.
Other forms of Buddhism, such as the Mahayana Buddhism followed in Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan, flourished within the walls of the ancient school. A number of scholars have associated some Mahayana texts such as the Shurangama Sutra , an important sutra in East Asian Buddhism, with the Buddhist tradition at Nalanda.