Gandhara School of Art, known for its unique Greco-Buddhist style, influenced Japanese Buddhist art and architecture. He said that the teachings and art forms originating in Gandhara and Swat were ...

integrating various cultural influences into the Gandhara school of Buddhist art. The area contains numerous Buddhist monastic ensembles and sanctuaries, as well as fortified edifices from the Islamic ...

As the Buddhist message spread north, it passed into the region known as Gandhara, the area in what is now north-eastern Pakistan, around Peshawar, in the foothills of the Himalayas. From the ...