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Heracles depiction of Vajrapani as the protector of the Buddha, 2nd century AD Gandhara, British Museum.

Buddha sculpture, Stupa 1, Sanchi, 4th-5th centuries CE. This is one of four such images placed at each of the four gateways of the complex.

The 3.45 metre high seated Buddha within the Seokguram Grotto, near the Bulguksa Temple of Gyeongju, South Korea. Silla period, 8th century CE. The figure sits beneath a stone hemispherical dome.

A limestone figure of a seated Buddha protected by Naga. Preah Khan Kompong Svay, Cambodia. 12th century CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)

Buddha's sermon to the Shakya clan after the miracle of Kapilavastu, Northern Gateway, Stupa 1, Sanchi.

The Buddha Amityaus; possibly Chengde (Jehol), China; Qing dynasty, reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1736–1795 CE); hollow dry lacquer; 40 x 27 x 18 in. (101.6 x 68.6 x 45.7 cm); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; The Avery Brundage Collection...

A stupa (literally “heap” or “pile”) is a reliquary, a shrine containing the remains of a holy or sainted person and/or artifacts (relics) associated with them, originating in India prior to the 5th century BCE as tombs of holy men and evolving...

Perfection of Wisdom is the foundational text of the Mahayana Buddhist school, a kind of anthology of works, thematically linked, composed between c. 50 BCE - c. 600 CE in India by Mahayana Buddhist scribes. It is comprised of 38 sutras (defined...

Cyrus the Great (558-530 BCE) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. This was the famous Achaemenid Empire of Persia. An inscription at Naqsh-i-Rustam, the tomb of his able successor Darius I (521-486...

The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time...