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Gandhara by Francine Tissot (book)
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Gandhâra (book) by Francine Tissot. Preface by Jeannine Auboyer. Drawings by Anne marie Loth. Paperback book of 256 pages. 289 black and white illustrations. 2nd edition. 2002. Editions Maisonneuve. 1 folding map at the end of the volume. Very good condition. French text.
Gandhâra: Historical region of the current North of Pakistan corresponding to the valley of Peshâwar, by extension the term has sometimes been applied to the valleys of Kabul and the Swat River. At the crossroads of the trade routes carrying the Buddhist religion between India, Central Asia and the Middle East, Gandhâra was first dominated by the Maurya dynasty (end of the 4th century-beginning of the 2nd century BCE). Then successively by the Seleucid Bactrians, the Indo-Scythians and the Kushans (1st-3rd century CE). Taxila and Begram were active cultural centres
Gandhara is famous for its Buddhist art style that it developed between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD: Gandhara art is a Greco-Buddhist cultural syncretism, a mixture of local Indian Buddhism and Hellenistic influences resulting from Alexander the Great’s expedition to Central Asia. The Gandhara style flourished from the 1st century, under the Kushan dynasty, to the 5th century, when it disappeared with the invasion of the Shvetahûna (White Huns)”
Public and private life in ancient India.
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