The Gandhara text is narrated by Shakyamuni Buddha, the religious leader also known as Siddhartha Gautama, and tells the story of the 13 Buddhas who preceded him, his own emergence and the ...

The Buddha was an Indian prince who lived around 400 BC. He became a Buddha - an 'Enlightened One' - through comprehending the roots of human suffering while living an ascetic life.

The genesis of Gandhara art occurred perhaps when Buddha’s image was created in large numbers and placed in monastic buildings for worship, pieces of which are displayed at the Peshawar Museum ...

“What’s significant about the art of Gandhara is that it marks the beginning of Buddhist art that depicts the Buddha,” says Christine Knoke, a curator at the Norton Simon Museum. Earlier art ...

The Gandhara sculptures get their name from a small, hilly region around Peshawar that at the time of Darius I (522-485 B.C.) was a province of Persia.

Stella Kramrisch, Image of Buddha from Gandhara, Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 289 (Spring, 1966), pp. 36-39 ...

After the Mahaparinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, his profound non-sectarian, universal teachings were not confined to the borders of India but rather travelled throughout Asia, crossing the paths ...

An art exhibition for Gandhara statues was held at the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot on Dec 6 and will last until March 5 next year.

As a message of peace and dhamma Osho Dham presents 'Buddha of Gandhara', exhibition of paintings by Artist Ma Prem Anubodhi at OshoDham, 44, Jhatikra Road, Pandwala Khurd, Near Najafgarh, New Delhi.

The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wide attention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble ...