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Buddhism first reached the Gandhara region of Pakistan following the Third Buddhist Council where Ashoka sent missionaries to the region. [3] As per Buddhist tradition, a monk from Varanasi in India called Majjhantika is held to be the first monk to travel to Kashmir and Gandhara to spread Buddhism under the orders of Ashoka.
Founded in 1865 at a smaller location and opened in 1894 [1] at its current location on The Mall in Lahore during the British colonial period, Lahore Museum is Pakistan's largest museum, as well as one of its most visited ones. [2] [3] [4] The museum houses an extensive collection of Buddhist art from the ancient Indo-Greek and Gandhara kingdoms.
Gandhāra is the name of an ancient region located in present-day north-west Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan. [5] [6] [7] The region centered around the Peshawar Valley and Swat river valley, though the cultural influence of "Greater Gandhara" extended across the Indus river to the Taxila region in Potohar Plateau and westwards into the Kabul Valley in Afghanistan, and northwards ...
Ranigat (Pashto: راني ګټ) is a collection of 2nd-century CE Buddhist ruins spread over an area of 4 km 2 (1.5 sq mi) that dates from the Gandhara civilization. Ranigat is located in the Buner Valley of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. According to archeologists, Ranigat remained the center of Buddhist art and culture for centuries.
Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism.It includes depictions of Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas and bodhisattvas, notable Buddhist figures both historical and mythical, narrative scenes from their lives, mandalas, and physical objects associated with Buddhist practice, such as vajras, bells, stupas and Buddhist temple architecture. [1]
The current collection consists of nearly 14,000 items [citation needed] based on Gandhara, Greco-Buddhist, Kushan, Parthian, and Indo-Scythian culture.The collection includes art, sculptures, coins, manuscripts, statues, ancient books, early versions of the Quran, weapons, dresses, jewelry, Kalash effigies, inscriptions, paintings of the Mughal and later periods, household materials and ...
Gandhāran Buddhism was the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra, which was a major center of Buddhism in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan , mainly the Peshawar valley and Potohar plateau as well as Afghanistan 's ...
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.