According to the essay, archaeological researchers and art historians distinguish a close similarity between the Avukana image with that of the Bamiyan. The Bamiyan region had been referred to in ...

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious ... integrating various cultural influences into the Gandhara school of Buddhist art. The ...

The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara reveals the complex cultural influences ... Gandhara — whose center was situated in present-day Peshawar in northwest Pakistan — encompassed Bamiyan ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were originally used by Buddhist monks for meditation and retreat. Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of ...

The images which follow show depictions of the Buddha - both ancient and modern - in sculpture and painting, from some of the countries where Buddhism took hold. The Emerald Buddha presides over ...