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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.
Stupa drum panel showing the conception of the Buddha: Queen Maya dreams of a white elephant entering her right side, 100–300 AD, carved schist, Jamal Garhi, British Museum. Indo-Corinthian capital from Jamal Garhi. Jamal Garhi is a small town located 13 kilometers from Mardan at Katlang-Mardan road in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern ...
Head of a Buddha or Bodhisattva, facing (4th-5th century), probably Hadda, Tapa Shotor. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Seated Buddha, Tapa Shotor (Niche V1). Tapa Shotor , also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"), [ 5 ] was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda , Afghanistan , and is now an archaeological site. [ 6 ]
The Kimbell seated Bodhisattva belongs to a type known as the "Kapardin" statue of the Buddha, characterized by a "Kapardin" coil of hair on the top of the head. The top of the statue was broken, and a full decorated aureola with flying attendants initially stood behind the image of the Buddha. [8]
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The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism.It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara, located in the northwestern fringe of the Indian subcontinent.
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