Gandhara (in Sanskrit गन्धार (Gandhāra)) is the name ancient a region located in the northwest of the current Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan , including the valleys of Swat and Kabul until to the Indus . Its main towns are Purushapura - current Peshawar - and on its eastern border, Taxila , malls leading between India and the West at the beginning of our era. The kingdom of Gandhara is the first millennium BC to the eleventh century, but really took off after the successors of Alexander the Great (with the Indo-Greek kingdoms ) to i - iii centuries AD at the time of the Kushan empire . Strategic region at the crossroads of major Indian civilizations of Central Asia , Persian and Greco-Roman , and coveted this rich plain is flooded repeatedly. This kingdom is under the authority of the sovereign Indo-Greeks until about 30 BC , and then under the Kushan at least until the third century. After the conquest by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021 the name of Gandhara applies to a different region. At the time of Akbar is situated between Kashmir and Attock . The Gandharan Buddhism and surrounding areas, a mixture of Indian influences, Persian and Hellenistic, saw the birth of Mahayana and significantly influenced Buddhism in the Far East; The first missionaries and translators active in China , and most sutras , came from the Indo-Greek and Kushan regions. The influence of the Gandhara is also exerted on Tibetan Buddhism through school yogacara founded by Asanga and Vasubandhu , gandharais two brothers. The manuscripts oldest Buddhist, which are also the most ancient Indian manuscripts were found in Gandhara. They are written in Gandhari , language in use in the kingdom, derived from Sanskrit and noted in writing kharosti . The art of Gandhara, the most famous Greco-Buddhist art , offers the integration of the most blatant forms of art and the largest between Asia and Europe. Today this art should be located on a specific area: the district of Peshawar, the Khyber Pass to the Indus and Kohat in Malakand Pass . Its also more or less the center of a vast and fluctuating space grew Greco-Buddhist art, straddling the Pakistan and Afghanistan today. This Greco-Buddhist art is broadcast on commercial routes until Central Asia Eastern, in the present Xinjiang with features stylistic features with the changing synthesis of the arts Hellenistic , Roman and Iranian on topics iconographic and architectural where Indian the Buddhism was one of the key reasons. It is indeed in the Gandhara region - as well as Mathura - as did the first images of the Buddha . This is supposed to be what Gandhara Dhanakosha the lake, birthplace of Padmasambhava , the founder of Tibetan Buddhism ..https://youtube/watch?v=Ia5ZrCBbzNE
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:26:09 +0000
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