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Gandhara
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Gandhara

Ancient state situated in the region of modern northern Pakistan and India, founded by Greeks who had settled in the area following Alexander the Great's conquests of the 4th century BC. By 100 BC Gandhara had evolved its own culture, a fusion of Greek and Indian-Buddhist cultures. It was Gandharan artists who first portrayed the Buddha in sculpture and dressed him in a Greek toga. This model has dominated Buddhist iconography ever since.



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The Greco-Buddhist mix that marks Gandharan art used to interest only specialists; now it's hot.
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We wanted the sculpture to be in the Gandharan style as we felt that this period of sculpture rediated compassion, beauty and reality.
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Alexander the Great built magnificent Greek cities in the country, and Afghanistan's powerful Buddhist kingdoms were the first to give the Buddha a human form, sculpting its image in the Gandharan style-an exquisite synthesis of classical Greek and Indian art-and carving towering figures of the Buddha into the cliffs of Bamiyan.
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