The dig in Zehampora, Baramulla is being led by a small army of archaeologists from the Department of Central Asian Studies ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

Gemstones, precious metals, and some cremated remains of the Buddha were unearthed during an excavation in 1898 ...

The Korea Heritage Service and the Korea Heritage Agency (KHA) on June 20 said that using 3D digital technology, they recorded the famous statue "Fasting Buddha" displayed at the Lahore Museum in ...

SWAT: Junsei Terasawa, a prominent Buddhist monk from Japan, on Sunday emphasised the profound historical and cultural connections between the ancient region of Gandhara and Japan, particularly in ...

This led him to imagine a different past, one in which Alexander the Great never conquered Gandhara in 330BC, the area in modern-day northwestern Pakistan and northeastern Afghanistan that is ...

Han Buddhism and Indian Buddhism practitioners and scholars differ in opinions on the archaeological findings at the Mo'er Temple site in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Considering ...

The Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains are one of the most imposing relics of Buddhism in the Gandhara region of Pakistan. The inscribed property is composed of two ...

So, all these places in Gandhara are the melting pot of different cultures. Including Hinduism, Buddhism, and different sects of Buddhism. And we have evidences in literature, in Buddhist literature.

While new discoveries in Gandhara continue to captivate the world’s attention, the tracing of Buddha himself is absent from intellectual debates on Gandhara. This is happening at a time when the ...