Culture of Gandhara Civilization Gandhara is the region that now comprise of Peshawar valley, Mardan, Swat, Dir, Malakand, and Bajuaur agencies in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Taxila in the Punjab, and up to Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is in this region that the Gandhara civilization emerged and became the cradle of Buddhism. It was from here that Buddhism spread towards east as far away as Japan and Korea. The intriguing record of Gandhara civilization, discovered in the 20th century
solemn and compassionate can still be perceived from the downward gazing eyes and the facial expression. The Buddha wears a full-shoulder kasaya with compact and specified drapery that forms into a U-shape along the axis of the body. The left hand naturally drops to hold a piece of the clothes yet the right forearm is fragmented. The Buddha stands on a rising lotus throne which is set on a Sumeru throne. This artifact was excavated at Ruins of the Ancient Andier City, which is a inner desert that locates
Asia and Southern Asia. Those regions are composed of distinctive languages, ideas and beliefs, as well as consisting different climates,cultures, traditions, and political and social structures. Climates vary from warm to cold depending on its geography, whereas the social structure range from rigid to mobile, all impacting the inhabitants a certain way. The cultural development of the indian civilization were way different with China and Arabs. “Whereas Confucianism paid little attention
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PAKISTAN AS A SUPER POWER In a recent article, “Turning Challenges into Opportunities” we argued that Pakistanis are a brave, resilient, and highly intelligent people who, under a strong, determined, and patriotic leadership, can surmount any crisis. Furthermore, there are many reasons that Pakistan could become a global superpower within few decades. Of course, in the sublime sense, the only superpower is the Almighty Allah. However, in more mundane terms, a superpower can be defined as
Tajikistan (officially the Republic of Tajikistan) is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east. Tajikistan also lies adjacent to Pakistan's Chitral and the Gilgit-Baltistan region, separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Most of Tajikistan's population belongs to the Persian-speaking Tajik ethnic group, who share language, culture and history
limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining trait of human beings? EARLY CIVILIZATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO ABOUT 1000
Their food mainly consisted of fruits, nuts and the flesh of wild beasts. (Technological) They knew neither the use of metals nor the art of cultivation. They never constructed homes, but lived in natural caverns. They used sharp edged tools mainly of quartzite stone. Axes, arrow-heads, spears, digging tools, circular stones, hurling choppers, knives, scrapers, hammer stones, were used
comparative study of two cultures is performed. Both the cultures have strong roots with the shades of thousands of years of civilizations. The ideology, ethics and living styles are compared with some examples and details. The architecture, food, arts and crafts, religion, education and festivals are elaborated in write detail to get the list of both cultures and to figure out the difference between two friendly boarder countries. It has been found that both courtiers
transformed into reality. The purely spiritual can not be stopped and is invincible. Alexander's historical mission was to prepare the impulse of a new astrologic era, to terminate the old one and to transform ancient-obsolete forms of culture and world dominion. (This transition period from Aries to Pisces astrologic era in history is known as the Hellenistic period, and it has lasted for more than two centuries. One astrologic era has a duration of 2000 years.) Related articles on the net: Alexander's