The Fondukistan monastery was a Buddhist monastery located at the very top of a conical hill next to the Ghorband Valley, Parwan Province, about 50 kilometers...
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Greco-Buddhist art. circa 700 CE, Fondukistan monastery, Ghorband District, Afghanistan Seated Buddha, Fondukistan monastery. National Museum of Afghanistan...
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Funerary stele of a royal couple in the Fondukistan monastery, dedicated around the end of the 7th century CE under the Turk Shahis. The King wears a...
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spring'), is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site is considered among...
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Tepe Maranjan (category Buddhist monasteries in Asia)
derived from the sculptures of Hadda, but preceded the style of the Fondukistan monastery. Tepe Maranjan can be considered as representative of the Art of...
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Dharmarajika Stupa (category Buddhist monasteries in Pakistan)
courtyard. Monastery M is connected to a long residential monastery, oriented in a roughly north-south direction. At the southern edge of this monastery are...
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Statue of Buddha found in the monastery of Fondukistan, Gurband Valley, Parwan. 7th century. Guimet Museum....
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This rebuilding is roughly contemporary with the building of the Fondukistan monastery. These major construction efforts necessarily relied on an intense...
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Mohra Muradu (category Buddhist monasteries in Pakistan)
ancient Buddhist stupa and monastery near the ruins of Taxila, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The ancient monastery is located in a valley and has...
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Jaulian (category Buddhist monasteries in Pakistan)
a ruined Buddhist monastery dating from the 2nd century CE, located in Taxila, in Pakistan. Jaulian, along with the nearby monastery at Mohra Muradu, form...
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