Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s4.t2.42

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Great Stupa of Kanishka or Vihara of Kanishka is the stupa in Gandhara area in the Kushan era. Its site is located in Shan-ji-ki-Dheri near the ancient capital of Gandhara (now Peshawar, Pakistan). The stupa was built about in the late 1ˢᵗ or early 2ⁿᵈ century under the order of Kanishka, the third king of Kushan Dynasty and the supervision of imperial craftsman Agesiles (he may be the descendant of Greeks or Eurasian). According to the description of Chinese Buddhist Faxian (in the Eastern Jin