TAXILA

tăkˈsĭlŭ, archaeological site of three successive cities, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. There between the 7th cent. b.c. and the 7th cent. a.d. was a flourishing city, famous as an ancient seat of learning. It was occupied (326 b.c.) by Alexander the Great, became prosperous under the empire of Asoka, and was overrun (c.1st–2d cent. a.d.) by the Kushans. It was a center of Buddhist studies and was visited in the 7th cent. by Hsüan-tsang. There are remains of Buddhist stupas and monasteries as well as sculpture of the Gandharan school of art.

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books on: Taxila  - 200 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)
...tope B), sacred area and monastery, Taxila (modified from Marshall, 1951, pl...in cell 18 of the Akhauri B monastery, Taxila (ASIDGS 1921-22 no. 74, courtesy...tope C), sacred area and monastery, Taxila (modified from Marshall, 1951, pl...
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The Indo-Greeks
Book by A. K. Narain; Clarendon Press, 1957
Subjects: Bactria--History, Greeks--India, Numismatics--India
type used by the Greeks for Taxila was unknown. 1 He adds that the Taxila type ought to be discoverable on the coinage of the...2 Tarn takes the elephant as the missing type of Taxila, 3 and though he recognizes the difficulty in one...
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Rome beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Book by Mortimer Wheeler; Philosophical Library, 1955
Subjects: Rome--Commerce
...western India b. Silver repousse emblema representing Dionysus, from Taxila, Punjab 25. Air-view of part of Taxila Sirkap , Punjab, as ex cavated 26. Stone frieze from Taxila 27. Stone relief showing Laocoon and the Trojan Horse, from the...
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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
...century, schist, from the Dharmarajika stupa, Taxila 6 1/2 O 3 1/2, Taxila Museum 59. FALSE BRACKET with Head of a Princely...century, schist, from the Dharmarajika Stupa, Taxila, Height: 8 " Taxila Museum 60. WINGED ATLANTID...
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Non-Western Educational Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice
Book by Timothy Reagan; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000
Subjects: Comparative Education, Education--Philosophy, Educational Anthropology
...Indeed, by the 7th century B.C.E., Taxila Takshasila had already achieved considerable...the time of Alexander the Great. 112 Taxila never existed as a single institution...Hindu and Buddhist learning that, like Taxila, consisted not of a single institution...
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journal articles on: Taxila  - 28 results

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Surgical Instruments in the Taxila Museum
Journal article by Nasim H. Naqvi; Medical History, Vol. 47, 2003
Surgical Instruments in the Taxila Museum by Nasim H. Naqvi Short Article...a known seat of medical education. Taxila is one of the most important archaeological...Kushan settlement called Sirsukh. Taxila gained importance and prosperity because...
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Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Journal article by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...late 1800s and subsequent excavations at Taxila and Charsadda in the early 1900s. The...the Peshawar Plain and the region around Taxila, which is located to the east of the...the chronology of other sites (such as Taxila) and require a new model for urban developments...
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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
...Marshall planned to start excavations in Taxila, partly because its location and history...is a welcome counterpart to Marshalls Taxila excavations, whose data, collected with...Civilisations (in print). Marshall, J. 1951. Taxila: An Illustrated Account of Archaeological...
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The Buddhist "Monastery" and the Indian Garden: Aesthetics, Assimilations, and the Siting of Monastic Establishments
Journal article by Gregory Schopen; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Buddhist monasteries--Terminology, Gardens--Terminology, Monasteries, Buddhist--Terminology
...the Buddhist vihara at Kalawan near Taxila in 1951, he certainly sounded like...beginning. (54.) J. Marshall, Taxila: An Illustrated Account of Archaeological Excavations Carried out at Taxila under the Orders of the Government of...
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Pyrrhonism and Mādhyamika
Journal article by Thomas McEvilley; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 32, 1982
Subjects: Skeptics (Greek Philosophy)
...they had philosophy schools too -- this in or near a city like Taxila! -- and that cross-fertilization almost certainly took place...recent archeological work at Kandahar, Ai Khanoum, Charsada and Taxila has gone a long way toward establishing Tarns view against the...
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magazine articles on: Taxila  - 11 results

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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
...Hund and conquering the Ghandaran ruler of the ancient city of Taxila, near modern-day Islamabad, in 326 B.C. There he found...the dominant philosophy in the Gandhara area, extending from Taxila to Upper Swat. The Mauryan Empire was the first universal state...
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A Museum for British Lahore
Magazine article by M. Naeem Qureshi; History Today, Vol. 47, September 1997
Subjects: Lahore, Pakistan--Galleries and museums, Museums--Pakistan
...found near the bed of the River Jhelum. There was an Ionic pillar dug up by G.A. Cunningham from the ancient capital of Taxila. Major Hall sent a large stone figure of Buddha from the Manikyala tope. Other exhibits for the natural history, geography...
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The History-Thieves: Stealing the Muslim Past
Magazine article by Akbar S. Ahmed; History Today, Vol. 43, January 1993
Subjects: Hinduism--India, Historians--Practice, India--Historic sites
...the Muslim invasion of Sind shortly afterwards; the impressive and pre-islamic civilisations of Moenjodaro, Harrapa and Taxila are hastily brushed over or altogether ignored. Contemporary history does not fare much better. In India the aspirations of...
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The Lawles Frontier
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Boundary disputes--Social aspects, Civil war--Causes of, Ethnic relations--Analysis, Government resistance--Social aspects, Government, Resistance to--Social aspects, National liberation movements--Social aspects, Paramilitary groups--Social aspects, Radicalism--Social aspects, Social conflict--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Subversive activities--Social aspects, Taliban--Military policy, Tribal government--Analysis
...this broad and majestic crossing, is where India truly begins, I thought. A forty-five-minute drive east of Attock lay Taxila, where amid the enervating heat and dust are the ruins of Persian, Greek, Buddhist, and ancient Indian civilizations: a...
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Lawless Frontier: The Tribal Lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Reveal the Future of Conflict in the Subcontinent, along with the Dark Side of Globalization
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Afghanistan, Pakistan--Political aspects
...this broad and majestic crossing, is where India truly begins, I thought. A forty-five-minute drive east of Attock lay Taxila, where amid the enervating heat and dust are the ruins of Persian, Greek, Buddhist, and ancient Indian civilizations: a...
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Life Class Mark Vernon on Suspending Disbelief Go to Theschooloflife.Com
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 30, 2010
...philosopher Pyrrho of Elis. He travelled to India with Alexander the Great and had an encounter that changed his life. At Taxila, in modern-day Pakistan, he met the Gymnosophists, the naked philosophers. It was not just their literal nakedness that...
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Prince Charles Plugs Tolerance Message
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 1, 2006
...have got caught on the material. Picture, IAN JONES, Telegraph/pool Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to ruins, parts of which are over 2,000-years-old, of a Buddhist monastery at Taxila, near Islamabad
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No Strings Attached to Pakistan Aid Budget, Says Benn
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 31, 2007
...number of religious processions, which were not tourist events and should be avoided. It advised people to avoid travelling to Taxila and Murree until January 31, and only essential travel to Peshawar until further notice. rhona_ganguly@mrn.co.uk Hilary...
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U.S. May Fast-Track Aid to Block Taliban; Militants Threaten Key Installations
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 29, 2009
...the factories. Just outside Wah town and the Pakistan Ordnance Factories, on the road toward Islamabad, is Heavy Industries Taxila, another military-industrial complex. The backbone of Pakistans engineering industry for the armed forces, the facility...
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Sunday, Aug. 4
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 11, 2002
Subjects: Hussein, Saddam
...Saddam move against the Kurds, we would respond." Assailants hurled grenades at worshippers leaving a hospital chapel in Taxila, Pakistan, killing three Pakistani women and reinforcing fears that Islamic militants are targeting Christians in Pakistan...
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encyclopedia articles on: Taxila  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Taxila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAXILA tak silu, archaeological site of three successive cities, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. There between the 7th cent. b.c. and...
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Islamabad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a summer resort as well as summer headquarters for many diplomatic missions. Also near the city are the historical ruins of Taxila. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Gandhara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GANDHARA g nda r , 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...
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HsÜan-Tsang
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...teaching and studying. Between 629 and 645 he made a pilgrimage to India in search of authentic scriptures. He studied at Taxila and Nalanda , the most celebrated center of Buddhist learning in India, and also visited Kashmir and the major Buddhist holy...


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