The History of Buddhist Thought c4.7
The History of Buddhist Thought c4.7
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c4.7
Pl. I. Bodhisattva of the Gandhara school. The figure, 5 ft. 9 in. high, probably from Yusufzai near Peshawar, is in the possession of Messrs. E. Goldston, 25 Museum Street, London, to whose kindness I am indebted for the reproduction. The sculptures of the Gandhara school are found on the North-West Frontier, and belong to the Kushana period from the first century B.C. to the fourth century A.D., but we have no means of exactly dating any of the figures. They were evidently produced by workmen with a knowledge of Greek sculpture, but the ideas that they reveal are purely Indian.