Carving from soft schist, Gandhara's sculptors soon began to facilitate the introduction of a new Mahayana philosophical development - the Bodhisattva. Unlike the Gautama Buddha, who had achieved ...

One of the most notable of these sculptures, often called the Fasting Buddha, but perhaps should be more accurately called the Fasting Bodhisattva or the Fasting Gotama, can now be found in the ...

This is one the first images of the Buddha ever created. It shows him in an enlightened state, wearing monk's robes and seated in the lotus position. The position of his hands indicates that he is ...

The exhibition features a total of 203 artifacts from Gandhara, including stone carvings of the Buddha and various Bodhisattvas, remnants of Buddhist pagodas, gold and silver items and jewelry.

As the largest Gandhara cultural exhibition ever held ... In addition to early Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, pagoda building components and stone carvings, there are also gold and silver ...

Asanga was a historical figure, who lived in Gandhara in northern India in the ... said to have received the teaching from Maitreya (the Buddha of the Future), and for this reason statues of ...

The Gandhara sculptures get their name from a small ... helmet and all. They dutifully gave Buddha’s head the magic bump that marked his Buddhahood—though they were likely to disguise it ...

Originally, Buddha emphasised outgrowing desire itself to end suffering. This bodhisattva ... even Mathura and Gandhara, are along trade routes stretching from the Ganga river valley to the ...

"Gandhara art brings two major changes ... On the other hand, it created the first images of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas." Before the birth of this art, there were no images of the Buddha.