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Buddhist Art of Gandhara

In the Ashmolean Museum


  • ACC Distributed publishers
  • by David Jongeward
Buddhist Art of Gandhara is a scholarly catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum's important but still largely unpublished holdings of the Buddhist sculpture and related art of the historic Gandhara region (modern North West Pakistan / East Afghanistan) in the early centuries AD (c. 0-600 AD). This region was a major centre of Buddhist culture and facilitated the transmission of Buddhism and its art from India via the Silk Road to Central Asia, China and the Far East.

ISBN 9781910807224 | E | HB
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Publisher ACC Distributed publishers
ISBN 9781910807224
Author(s) David Jongeward
Publication date February 2019
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 300 x 245 mm
Illustrations 250 col.ill.
Pages 336
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Buddhist Art of Gandhara is a scholarly catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum's important but still largely unpublished holdings of the Buddhist sculpture and related art of the historic Gandhara region (modern North West Pakistan / East Afghanistan) in the early centuries AD (c. 0-600 AD). This region was a major centre of Buddhist culture and facilitated the transmission of Buddhism and its art from India via the Silk Road to Central Asia, China and the Far East. The book contains introductory essays, with additional illustrations, suitable for the general reader as well as the specialist.