GANDHARA

gəndäˈrə, historic region of India, now in NW Pakistan. Situated astride the middle Indus River, the region had Taxila and Peshawar as its chief cities. It was originally a province of the Persian Empire and was reached (327 b.c.) by Alexander the Great. The region passed to Chandragupta, founder of the Maurya empire, in the late 4th cent. b.c., and under Asoka was converted (mid-3d cent.) to Buddhism. It was part of Bactria from the late 3d cent. to the 1st cent. b.c. Under the Kushan dynasty (1st cent.–3d cent. a.d.), and especially under Kanishka, Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture, consisting mainly of images of Buddha and reliefs representing scenes from Buddhist texts, but with marked Greco-Roman elements of style. The art form flourished in Gandhara until the 5th cent., when the region was conquered by the Huns.

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books on: Gandhara  - 264 results

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The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara
Book by Kurt A. Behrendt; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Buddhist--Gandhara (Pakistan And Afghanistan), Sculpture, Buddhist--Gandhara (Pakistan And Afghanistan), Sculpture, Gandhara--Gandhara (Pakistan And Afghanistan)
...E. period is even more obscure, as Gandhara fell under the control of the Hephthalites...the 9th century C.E., Buddhism in Gandhara was fully eclipsed.5 S Between the...Buddhist pil- grims began to visit Greater Gandhara to see famous relics like the Buddhas...
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Gandhara Sculpture from Pakistan Museums
Book by Benjamin Rowland Jr.; Asia Society, 1960
Subjects: Art, Buddhist--Exhibitions, Sculpture, Gandhara--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Pakistan--Peshawar District--Exhibitions
The Art of Gandhara A little more than one hundred years...socalled Graeco-Buddhist sculpture of Gandhara, carvings which in that romantic age...Hellenism he introduced to the Orient. Gandhara, a term now used to describe the school...
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The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain
Book by Benjamin Rowland; Penguin Books, 1953
Subjects: Architecture--India, Art, Indic
...Sunga, and Andhra Dynasties, the art of Gandhara is not in any way a continuation of this indigenous...real fusion of Indian and Western ideals in Gandhara. The arts of India and Gandhara advanced along separate paths in different directions...
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Hellenism in Ancient India
Book by Gauranga Nath Banerjee; Munshi Ram Manohar Lal, 1961
Subjects: Greeks--India, Hellenism, India--Civilization
...and the folds executed on the dress point to Gandhara sculptures as models." Both in Gandhara and Mathura, Buddha is clad in the garment...that the folds of the upper garment in the Gandhara sculptures SANSKRIT , Sanghati are clearly...
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The Living Past
Book by Ivar Lissner, J. Maxwell Brownjohn; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1957
Subjects: Civilization--History
...People are inclined to describe the art of Gandhara as Greco- Buddhistic. This is not quite...blend of Greek and oriental elements. Gandhara, for that matter, shows traces of Roman...latest research tends to the belief that Gandhara art was the easternmost outpost of Roman...
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journal articles on: Gandhara  - 30 results

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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments
Journal article by O.V. Hinuber; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments...Hinuber Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments...comprehensive introduction also to Gandhara in general, which can be warmly...
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The Question of 'China' in Burmese Chronicles
Journal article by Goh Geok Yian; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, 2010
Subjects: Burmese foreign relations, Burmese history, Chinese foreign relations, Chinese history, 960-1368, Historic documents--Criticism and interpretation
...individual cities such as Bagan and Tarup (Gandhara Division) represent two among numerous...the Turkic groups who did inhabit the Gandhara region from which the Buddhas tooth relic...around the fifth century, the Kushan of Gandhara were close to completing their mass exodus...
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Silk Road Art and Archaeology, Vol. 6: Papers in Honour of Francine Tissot
Journal article by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Silk Road Art and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Francine Tissot, vol. 6 (Book)--Book reviews
...understanding of the art and cultural history of Gandhara and its associated regions. While most of the topics concern issues in the art of Gandhara and Bactria (regions within modern Pakistan...her "Reflexions a propos de lart du Gandhara," which opens the volume, Francine...
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On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kusana World
Journal article by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kusana World (Essay collection)--Book reviews
...and Afghanistan, historically known as Gandhara and Bactria. (2) Furthermore, the...papers dealing with regions south of Gandhara appear last and the first two essays...Kusana coin types primarily of Bactria and Gandhara, with some reference to adjacent regions...
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Southern Bactria and Northern India before Islam: A Review of Archaeological Reports
Journal article by Gerard Fussman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996
Subjects: Afghanistan--Art, Central Asia--Art, Excavations (Archaeology)--Reports, Swat, Pakistan--Art, Uttar Pradesh, India--Art
...from widely separated Places (mainly Gandhara and Mathura) and its interpretation...sequence of the Hellenized Buddhist art of Gandhara;(8) and the Archaeological Mission...the painting of the Hellenized art of Gandhara. It is a wonder that nobody, up to...
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magazine articles on: Gandhara  - 8 results

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Tracing the Buddhist Path
Magazine article by Matthew Summers-Sparks; Humanities, Vol. 25, November 2004
Subjects: Buddhism, Central Asia, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Historic documents, Manuscripts, Religious history
...hundred-year-old manuscripts from the Gandhara region offer a rare glimpse of the religion...point B?" Scholars have long speculated Gandhara, located in northern Pakistan and eastern...so forth, you see the likelihood that Gandhara was the funneling point from which Buddhism...
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Pakistan: Pakistan in History
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XV, September 30, 1996
Subjects: History, Pakistan
...Buddhism into his empire, giving rise in Gandhara to a Greco-Buddhist culture and a remarkable...survive in India, but the culture did. Gandhara was conquered by Chandragupta, the founder...Buddhism as the dominant philosophy in the Gandhara area, extending from Taxila to Upper...
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Visit Nepal Year - 1998: A World of Its Own
Magazine article by Saifuddin F. Ismailji; PSA Journal, Vol. 64, September 1998
Subjects: Nepal--Description and travel, Travel photography--Nepal
...the waist of his mother. This legend is well portrayed in the form of Gandhara art at the Peshawar museum in Pakistan--the region once an important center during the Gandhara kingdom from 500 years BC until the seventh century AD. Monks are seen...
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Among Gods and Kings
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 23, November 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Indian art--Exhibitions
...selection is wide ranging: from a third to fourth century A.D. Gandhara stucco relief of donor figures, in which exotic nomad dress...ivory from Madurai that opens the exhibition and the stucco Gandhara figures, but also charming pieces such as an ivory bracket...
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Art in the Year One
Magazine article by Scarlet Cheng; World and I, Vol. 16, January 2001
Subjects: Art, Art museums--Exhibitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York--Exhibitions, Millennium
...Afghanistan and Pakistan, around the year one, a powerful leader led the Kushans to build a large empire that included Bactria, Gandhara, and the plains of northern India. Sublime works of sculpture reflected Gandharas crossroads status, depicting divinities...
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newspaper articles on: Gandhara  - 3 results

 
 
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`Gandhara' Bridges Cultures
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 1999
`Gandhara bridges cultures "Gandhara: East West Passages," commissioned by the Kennedy Center...focuses on Macedonias Alexander the Great and his conquest of Gandhara, which is near the Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan and eastern...
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Dancer Takes Great Leap Forward
Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, January 4, 2000
...in Mr. Burgess dance production, "Gandhara: East West Passages" and its companion...says. The eye-catching sculpture in Gandhara played an integral part in conveying...personality," Mr. Burgess says. In "Gandhara," the second in a trilogy of dance...
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Loulan Vanished in Sand; Silk Road Oasis Town Flourished for Eight Centuries
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 14, 2005
Subjects: China, Han, Hedin, Sven
...recovered was a small bale of yellow silk, a fragment of a wool pile carpet, and architectural wood carvings decorated in the Gandhara style. Stein also investigated the remnants of the main sites defensive wall - a square with sides more than 1,000 feet...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gandhara  - 6 results

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Gandhara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GANDHARA g nda r , historic region of India, now...and especially under Kanishka , Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture...of style. The art form flourished in Gandhara until the 5th cent., when the region...
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Indian Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...crowded surfaces distinguish these bas-reliefs. Gandhara and Mathura Under the Kushans, conquerors from...developed between the 2d and 5th cent. a.d.: Gandhara art and art of Mathura. Gandhara art, named after the region of Gandhara now...
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Peshawar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was the capital of the ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara . The Kushan leader Kanishka (2d cent. a.d.) made it...attacks. Peshawar has a museum containing Buddhist relics and Gandhara sculpture, a 2d-century Buddhist stupa bearing an inscription...
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Kanishka
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KANISHKA k nish k , fl. c.a.d. 120, king of Gandhara . He was the most powerful and renowned ruler of the Kushan dynasty, one of the five tribes of the Yueh-chih who had divided...
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India
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Buddhism preached. Kosala was another kingdom of the period. In 327 325 b.c., Alexander the Great invaded the province of Gandhara in NW India that had been a part of the Persian empire. The Greek invaders were eventually driven out by Chandragupta of Magadha...
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