The Buddha's hands and face are more-or-less life-size ... probably dates to the third century AD, when Gandhara was ruled by the Kushan kings of northern India, whose empire stretched from ...

Carving from soft schist, Gandhara's sculptors soon began to facilitate the introduction of a new Mahayana philosophical development - the Bodhisattva. Unlike the Gautama Buddha, who had achieved ...

Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of spectacular Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs and works of gold and bronze from the Gandhara region of Pakistan, most never exhibited before in ...

All colossal Bamiyan statues had been sculpted by those who advocated Mahayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism it is believed had its birth in the Bamiyan part of the Gandhara region. Professor Perera ...

The Buddha's hands and face are more-or-less life-size ... probably dates to the third century AD, when Gandhara was ruled by the Kushan kings of northern India, whose empire stretched from ...