in fact more Buddhist sculpture and architecture comes from Gandhara than from any other part of ancient India. And here, in the British Museum, we have a Buddha sculpture that perfectly matches ...

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 ...

The depiction of Buddha in Japan bears the imprint of ... and the Seventeen-Article Constitution follows the spirit of the Gandhara bodhisattva ideal,” he added.

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 ...