The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years.

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.

Stella Kramrisch, Image of Buddha from Gandhara, Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 289 (Spring, 1966), pp. 36-39 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and organize ...

The Gandhara sculptures get their name from a small, ... Buddha himself often appeared draped in a Roman toga, and some of the men could have come straight out of the Roman Senate.

Gandhara Buddha statues exhibited in Inner Mongolia. chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2016-12-09 08:31. A Buddhist sculpture, traced back to the second or third century, is exhibited at the Inner ...

Southland museums offer precious glimpses of the ancient Buddhist art that sprang from Afghanistan. Its blend of Indian and Roman influences still intrigues.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...