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The Gandhara stupa followed several steps, ... formed of a succession of steps with niches containing Buddha images, ... Sinhala: දාගැබ් ...
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 .
The Buddhas of Bamiyan, an example of late Gandhāran Buddhist monumental sculpture. Topographic map of the region showing major Gandhāran and Bactrian sites The Dharmarajika Stupa and ruins of surrounding monasteries Kushan territories (full line) and maximum extent of Kushan dominions under Kanishka the Great (dotted line), which saw the height of Gandhāran Buddhist expansion.
Girihandu Seya (also known as Nithupathpana Vihara [note 1])is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Thiriyai, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.The temple is supposed to be the first Buddhist Stupa in Sri Lanka, [2] [3] believed to be constructed by two seafaring merchants Trapusa and Bahalika. [4]
An image of the Buddha was then, according to the Buddha's determination, created in the lion's reclining posture (sīhaseyya), and all the relics were enshrined within that image. When the enshrining of the relics in the Great Stūpa Ruvanveli was completed, the two novices Uttara and Sumana closed the relic chamber with the stone blocks that ...
Bases for one large and several small ruined stupas at the Saidu Sharif Stupa, Swat District, Pakistan, formerly Gandhara. At Indian stupa sites such as Barhut, Sanchi, and (to a lesser extent) Amaravati the placing of the surviving images around the stupa drum or on the railings and torana gateways is relatively clear from the best preserved ...
Loriyan Tangai is an archaeological site in the Gandhara area of Pakistan, consisting of many stupas and religious buildings where many Buddhist statues were discovered.. The stupas were excavated by Alexander Caddy in 1896, and the many statues of the site sent to the Indian Museum of Calcutta.