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Baul is the most commonly known category of Bangladeshi folk songs. It is mostly performed by hermits who are followers of Sufism in Bangladesh. Present day Sufis earn mainly from performing their music. Baul songs incorporate simple words expressing songs with deeper meanings involving creation, society, lifestyle and human emotions.
"Gandhara" (ガンダーラ, Gandāra) is a song by Japanese rock band Godiego, serving as their 7th single. Referring to the historical Buddhist land on the Indian subcontinent , "Gandhara" was used as the ending theme song for the first season of the television drama Saiyūki ( 西遊記 ) , known in the English speaking world as Monkey .
"Akti Bangladesh" - written by Noyeem Gahar and sung by Sabina Yasmin and Konok Chapa in different versions "Amar Desher Matir Gondhe" "Amar Shonar Bangla" - National anthem of Bangladesh, written by Rabindranath Tagore "Amar Vaier Rokte Rangano" - written by Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury and composed by Altaf Mahmud during 1952 Bengali language movement.
Sculptures have been a key of source of rendering the historic identity of the ancient Bangladesh. Even though the art of sculptures in Bangladesh began almost 2500 years ago, it mostly flourished during the Gupta, Pala and Sena dynasty all of which belong to the early Middle Ages (1–1200 CE).
On the west side of the sculpture is the located administrative building of the university and on the south side is a sculpture Mrutanjayi Mujib of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [10] According to the geographical coordinate system , the location of the Muktbangla sculpture is 23.7230336°N 90.1526242°E.
The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire. Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE.
An estimated 10 million Bengali refugees had fled to India in an effort to avoid the bloody civil war that had erupted in their homeland of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The exodus had led to ...
The style is clearly influenced by the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara. [ 44 ] The Indo-Scythian Western Satraps (1st century AD-405 AD may have played a role in the transmission of the art of Gandhara to the western Deccan region, as may also have the southern expansion of the Alchon Huns in the 6th-7th century.