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Mahasanghika
Mahasanghika (“Great Congregation”, also given as Mahasamghika) was an early Buddhist school of thought which is thought to have been formed after the Second Buddhist Council of 383 BCE when it separated itself from another school, the Sthaviravada...
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Buddhist Monastery Plan (Gandharan)
Plan of a typical Gandharan Buddhist monastery at Taxila from the site of Badalpur. Dated to 2nd - 5th Cent CE
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Buddhist Monastery Ruins, Sarnath
Remains of a Buddhist monastery around the Dharmarajika Stupa. The rectangular cells are thought to be rooms where the monks slept. The yellow structure visible in the background is a relatively modern Jain temple. Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh...
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Remains of a Buddhist Monastery, Sarnath
Remains of a Buddhist monastery around the Dharmarajika Stupa. Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India, 3rd century BCE.
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Ancient Korea
Korea, located on a large peninsula on the eastern coast of the Asian mainland, has been inhabited since Neolithic times. The first recognisable political state was Gojoseon in the second half of the first millennium BCE. From the 1st century...
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Statue of Buddhist Guardian Tamonten
This is a wooden statue of Tamonten — one of the Four Deva Kings (Shitenno) and a guardian of Buddhist teaching. This statue can be seen at the Daibutsuden or Great Buddha Hall of the Todaiji temple complex in Nara, Japan.
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Buddhist Illuminated Manuscript, Goryeo Period
An illuminated text of the Buddhist Lotus sutra. Goryeo period (918-1392 CE).
Gwangdeoksa temple in Chenan, Korea.
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Chinese Buddhist Votive Stele
This Buddhist votive stele made from chalkstone comes from China's Shanxi province, and it dates from c. 520 CE during the era of the Northern Wei Dynasty. (Museum Rietberg, Zürich)
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Fragment from a Buddhist Temple in Afghanistan
This is a fragment from a Buddhist temple in Afghanistan. It dates from between 100-500 CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)
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Gandhara Civilization
The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time...
