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Montag | 16.00 Uhr | Monks, Magic, Manuscripts: Buddhism in Gandhāra Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Indologie und Iranistik Gandhāra is the old name for the region around Peshawar in Northern Pakistan. Previously seen as a border area situated at the margin of the Indian world, today archaeological remains and recent manuscript finds suggest that it was a thriving centre of Buddhism in the first centuries of the Common Era. Buddhist scholars initiated and promoted far-reaching developments in Buddhist thought, scribes began to write and copy books, and sculptors, adopting Roman models, created a new artistic style for representing the Buddha and Bodhisattvas in human form. Gadharan Buddhism proved very successful: along the ancient trade routes, commonly known as the Silk Road, Buddhist art and Buddhist doctrine from Gandhāra spread first to Turkestan and then further east to China, Korea and Japan. Adresse Südasien-Institut E11 Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 69120 Heidelberg Veranstalter Südasien-Institut Homepage Veranstalter |