Gandhara Buddhist artifacts were also looted by smugglers.
Shan, Kucha, Kashgar, Osh, Udayana and Gandhara.
Gandhara was one of sixteen mahajanapadas of ancient India.
A Chinese pilgrim, Fa-Hein,(c.400) found Hinayana practice prevalent in Shan
Shan, Kucha, Kashgar, Osh, Udayana and Gandhara.
Our destination is Taxila, an ancient city of the Gandhara kingdom and a centre of Buddhist learning.
Their language lasted more than 500 years and their art and religion had considerable influence on the Gandhara Civilization.
Though Gandhara was a huge kingdom on its own,
it is often considered to be a part of an empire by modern-day scholars.
The most notable achievement of their rule was the development of Gandhara School of Art
and further spread of Buddhism into distant regions of Asia.
A notable art style that developed in Afghanistan and
eastern Pakistan is Gandhara art, produced by a fusion of Greco-Roman art
and Buddhist art between the 1st and 7th centuries CE.