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    Asia. The statue was excavated at Gandhara, Pakistan, and dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD. Some of the standing Buddhas (such as the example pictured)...
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  • from Gandhara, in Pakistan Standing Buddha from Gandhara (Tokyo), a Greco-Buddhist statue in Japan Sultanganj Buddha, from India and now in England Toluvila...
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    surviving devotional images of the Buddha were created during the 1st-3rd centuries CE. Gandhara art reached its zenith from the 3rd-5th century CE, when most...
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    50-100 CE. Buddha Preaching in Tushita Heaven. Amaravati, Satavahana period, 2nd century CE. Indian Museum, Kolkata. Standing Buddha from Gandhara. The Berenike...
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  • Gandhara (IAST: Gandhāra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. The core of the...
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    destruction of the Buddhas. The statues represented a later evolution of the classic blended style of Greco-Buddhist art at Gandhara. The larger statue...
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  • Buddhism (redirect from Buddha Dharma)
    also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It is the world's...
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    Amitābha (redirect from Amitabha Buddha)
    Amitābha (Sanskrit: अमिताभ, IPA: [ɐmɪˈtaːbʱɐ]) is the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism. He is also known as Amitāyus, which is understood to be his...
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    Buddhism in Greece (category Articles with unsourced statements from June 2015)
    such as the first–second century Gandhara standing Buddhas, the stylized curly hair and ushnisha apparently derived from the style of the Apollo Belvedere...
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    Greco-Buddhism (category Articles with incomplete citations from April 2020)
    figures, such as the 1st–2nd century Gandhara standing Buddhas, the stylized curly hair and ushnisha apparently derived from the style of the Apollo Belvedere...
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    Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    century AD, Gandhara Hariti, c. 2nd century AD, Gandhara Buddha, c. 2nd century AD, Gandhara Buddha and other divinities, c. 2nd century, Gandhara Padmavati...
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    Vajrapani (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from April 2021)
    protector of the Buddha The Buddha with his protector Vajrapāni. Gandhara, 2nd century Vajrapani, 3-4th century During the Kushan Empire, Gandhara art depicted...
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    Guimet Museum (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Tepe. Gandhara Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE Hellenistic decorative scrolls from Hadda, northern Afghanistan Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern...
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    Maitreya (redirect from Maitreya Buddha)
    art of Gandhara, in the first centuries CE in northern India, Maitreya was the most popular figure to be represented along with Gautama Buddha. Numerous...
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    Dharmachakra (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    century Gandhara Buddha footprint Gandharan Stele illustrating the first sermon at Sarnath, 2nd century, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stele from Gandhara A sculpture...
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    2006-12-12 at the Wayback Machine "In the art of Gandhara, the first known image of the standing Buddha and approximatively dated, is that of the Bimaran...
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    (see: 1st–2nd century Gandhara standing Buddhas and ), the stylized Mediterranean curly hair and top-knot apparently derived from the style of the Belvedere...
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    Bimaran casket (category Gautama Buddha in art)
    earliest known representation of the Buddha: "In the art of Gandhara, the first known image of the standing Buddha and approximatively dated, is that of...
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    Pure Land Buddhism (category Articles with dead external links from April 2014)
    achieving rebirth in a Buddha's "pure land" or buddha-field, which generally speaking is a Buddha's field of influence. Some Buddha-fields are considered...
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  • Korean Buddhist sculpture (category Articles with bare URLs for citations from March 2022)
    originating in Gandhara (present-day Pakistan), which were later adopted by China. These include the rectangular platform upon which the Buddha sits which...
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  • History of Buddhism (category Articles with incomplete citations from September 2023)
    (see: 1st–2nd century Gandhara standing Buddhas), the stylicized Mediterranean curly hair and topknot (ushnisha) apparently derived from the style of the Belvedere...
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    Indo-Greek Kingdom (category Articles with dead external links from July 2023)
    Kasmira, Gamdhara, Yavana, Vanavasa, and Tambapamnidipa". Several Gandhara Buddha statues with dated inscriptions, are now thought to have been dated...
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  • List of Shaman King characters (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Guardian ghosts of the Gandhara. Unlike the X-Laws' Archangels, the Gandhara spirits are genuinely divine, deriving from the Buddha. All of them are stronger...
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    Ajanta Caves (category Articles with incomplete citations from March 2021)
    Amaravati. Cave 10, condition in 1839 The Buddha in long, heavy robe, a design derived from the art of Gandhara Later painting with devotional figures,...
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    History of Buddhism in India (category Use dmy dates from March 2022)
    teachings of Gautama Buddha who was deemed a "Buddha" ("Awakened One"), although Buddhist doctrine holds that there were other Buddhas before him. Buddhism...
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    Indo-Greek art (category Articles with unsourced statements from October 2007)
    Indo-Greek kings ruled exclusively in parts of ancient India, especially in Gandhara, in what is now present-day the northwestern Pakistan. The Indo-Greeks...
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    Mahayana (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Those who, while walking, sitting, standing, or sleeping, recollect the moon-like Buddha, will always be in Buddha's presence and will attain the vast...
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    Bodhisattva (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Buddha cave" (cave 17) Manjushri, 17th–18th century China Padmapani Lokeshvara, Nepal, 11th century Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitreya, Gandhara...
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    History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    attire, West Bengal, 1st century BCE. Scene of the life of the Buddha, wearing kāṣāya, Gandhara, 2nd–3rd-century CE (Kushan period), Relief depicting men in...
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  • Hephthalites (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from July 2021)
    individuals: Kings and dignitaries mingling with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. One of the personages, standing behind a monk in profile, much be the King of...
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