Loriyan Tangai is an archaeological site in the Gandhara area of Pakistan, consisting of many stupas and religious buildings where many Buddhist statues were discovered.
The stupas were excavated by Alexander Caddy in 1896, and the many statues of the site sent to the Indian Museum of Calcutta.[1]
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LoriyanTangai is an archaeological site in the Gandhara area of Pakistan, consisting of many stupas and religious buildings where many Buddhist statues...
with Hellenistic decorative elements from the 2nd century BCE) or the LoriyanTangai stupas (2nd century CE). Sanchi Stupa No.2, the earliest known stupa...
standing Buddha with inscriptions dating them to 143 CE, such as the LoriyanTangai buddha, show that the features of that time are already rather late...
been dated in the Yavana Era. One of the statues of the Buddha from LoriyanTangai has an inscription mentioning "the year 318". The era in question is...
135 CE. Buddha from LoriyanTangai with inscription mentionning the "year 318", thought to be 143 CE. A Buddha from LoriyanTangai from the same period...
but probably circa 151 CE, with a shape similar to the contemporary LoriyanTangai stupas and the addition of schist reliefs. The stupa was rebuilt under...
Buddha meditating in the Indrasala Cave. 2nd-century CE relief from LoriyanTangai, Gandhara The Visit of Indra to the Buddha in the Indrasaila cave. The...
over the strings. Arched harp from Gandhara, 2nd century A.D. Found at LoriyanTangai, Pakistan. Buddhist artwork from Gandhara, Sikri Yusufzai stupa, 3rd-4th...
Another similar statue has "Year 32 of Kanishka". Kanishka I: Buddha from LoriyanTangai with inscription mentioning the "year 318" of the Yavana era (AD 143)...
a semi-hemispheric stupa almost directly on the ground surface the LoriyanTangai stupa, with an elongated shape and many narrative reliefs the near-pyramidal...
relief, Mathura art The same scene in a c. 2nd-century relief from LoriyanTangai, Gandhara. The Buddha is shown in Indrasala cave. Indra visiting the...
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