Concept
Gandharan Buddhism
Overview
Gandhāran Buddhism was the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra, which was a major center of Buddhism in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE. Ancient Gandhāra corresponds to modern day north Pakistan, mainly the Peshawar Valley and Potohar Plateau as well as Afghanistan's Jalalabad. The region has yielded the Gandhāran Buddhist texts written in Gāndhārī Prakrit the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered (1st century CE). Gandhāra was also home to a unique Buddhist artistic and architectural culture which blended elements from Indian, Hellenistic, Roman and Parthian art. Buddhist Gandhāra was also influential as the gateway through which Buddhism spread to Central Asia and China.
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For this reason, too, it is a legend universally believed, that Pythagoras, for instance, received his Philosophy from India and Egypt; the fame of the wisdom of these people, which wisdom is understood also to contain Philosophy, is an old one. The Oriental ideas and religious worship which prevailed throughout the West up to the time of the Roman Empire, likewise bear the name of Oriental Philosophy. The Christian…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Gandharan Buddhism is.
But generally Buddhism (as was not unnatural 60 years ago) is hardly taken here in its characteristic historical features. P. 167, § 88. Aristotle, _Phys,_ i. 8 (191 a.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Close in meaning to Gandharan Buddhism; the term itself is not named.
The Emperor, as such, professes all three; still many of the Emperors, even up to the most recent times, have been especially devoted to Buddhism.
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
Close in meaning to Gandharan Buddhism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Gandharan Buddhism
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- Outline of ancient India
- Ashoka
- Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya
- Hinduism
- Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
- Nyingma
- Eastern philosophy
- Japan
- Korea
- Sarvastivada
- Patriarch
- Menander I
- Anthropomorphism
- East Asia
- Dzogchen
- Xuanzang
- Indian subcontinent
- Taxila
- Pakistan
- Abhidharma
- Sanskrit
- Pali Canon
- Mahayana
- Mathura
Place in the tradition
Part of History of philosophy in Pakistan.