Wednesday, April 22, 2015

And so is its neighbor..............


  1. Buddhism in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Buddhism was one of the major religions in Afghanistan during pre-Islamic era. ...World, and resulted in a strong Hellenistic influence on Buddhist religious art.
  2. Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Because Afghanistan's Buddhist population no longer exists, so the statues are ....Praxenthaler, a German art historian and sculptor involved in the restoration.
  3. Greco-Buddhist art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The origins of Greco-Buddhist art are to be found in the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250 BC- 130 BC), located in today's Afghanistan, from which  ...
  4. Afghan art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Jump to Greco-Buddhist Art - [edit]. Main article: Greco-Buddhist art. Greco-Buddhist art was prevalent in Afghanistan from the 4th Century BCE to around  ...

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  5. Gandhara - Talaban destruction of Ancient Buddhist Art in ...

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    To the east ... there is a standing figure of Sakya Buddha ... in height 100 feet." ... The mindless destruction by Afghanistan's ruling Taiban of the giant Buddhas, ...
  6. Searching for Buddha in Afghanistan - Smithsonian

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    A cliff-face cavity is all that remains of one of two sixth-century Buddha ... the first moment the Taliban were driven from power at the end of 2001, art historians,  ...
  7. Gandhara Art, Art of Afghanistan, Afghanistan Sculpture

    afghanistan.saarctourism.org › Afghanistan
    Gandhara Art is a type of Buddhist art which developed between 1st century BC ... in Gandhara region, which is northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan  ...
  8. BUDDHISM IN AFGHANISTAN - SingNet

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    In AfghanistanBuddhism compromised with many elements of foreign culture and gave them a Buddhist outlook. The old schools of art never "idolized" Buddha  ...
  9. Afghanistan | Buddhist Art News

    https://buddhistartnews.wordpress.com/category/afghanistan/
    Feb 1, 2015 - Posts about Afghanistan written by buddhistartnews and buddhistartnews.

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