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The Buddha-Bar is a bar, restaurant, and hotel franchise created by French-Romanian restaurateur Raymond Vișan, with its original location having opened in Paris, France in 1996. [1] The Buddha Bar "soon became a reference among foreign yuppies and wealthy tourists visiting the city", [ 1 ] and "has spawned numerous imitators", [ 2 ] becoming ...
Standing Buddha from Gandhara, 1st–2nd century CE (Peshawar basin, Pakistan) Buddhism in Pakistan took root some 2,300 years ago under the Mauryan king Ashoka who sent missionaries to the Kashmira-Gandhara region of North West Pakistan extending into Afghanistan, following the Third Buddhist council in Pataliputra (modern India). [1] [2] [3]
Buddhism in Pakistan. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. H. History of Buddhism in Pakistan (5 P) M.
The in-situ seated Buddha (or Bodhisattva) statue at Butkara is considered one of the earliest, if not the earliest, known iconographical statues of the Buddha in northwestern India. [4] Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw considers that the statue dates to the late 1st century BCE to the early 1st century, as it was discovered in the GSt 3 stratum that ...
The monastery is the most complete Buddhist monastery in Pakistan and comprises several groups of stupas, monastic cells, temples, and secular buildings. [7] Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta Sindh: 1981 143; iii (cultural) Makli is a large necropolis in the city of Thatta. It was active between the 14th and 18th centuries.
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The Amlukdara stupa, in the Swat District of Pakistan.The main stupa with its sacred area was founded around the third century and lasted until 10th or 11th century. Many Western scholars have identified it as the Swat Valley in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.