Sphola Buddhist Stupa

 Sphola Buddhist Stupa at Khyber pass valley, kpk, Pakistan. 

The 2nd century stupa may have been constructed towards the end of the Kushan Empire or according to some sources soon after third to fifth centuries. It is the most complete Buddhist monument in the Khyber Pass. It is a reminder of the great Kushana Empire and Buddhism nexus which is often depicted in Gandhara artefacts.

 Gandhara sculptures were excavated at this very stupa and are now housed in the museum in Peshawar.

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Arya’ migration into India

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MIGRATIONS |   HISTORY & CULTURE New reports clearly confirm ‘Arya’ migration into India Tony Joseph SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 17:38 IST UPDATED:  SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 09:07 IST The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent The last time a paper titled ‘The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia’ was released online, in March 2018, it created a sensation in India and around the world. Mostly because the paper, co-authored by 92 scientists, many of them doyens of different disciplines, said that between 2000 BCE and 1000 BCE, there were significant migrations from the Central Asian Steppe that most likely brought Indo-European languages into India — just as Steppe migrations into Europe a thousand years earlier, beginning around 3000 BCE, had spread Indo-European languages to that continent as well. In other words, the paper supported the long-held idea of an ‘Arya’ migr
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Famous Sultanganj Buddha Ftatue.

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Sultanganj Buddha statue. the largest substantially complete copper Buddha figure known from the time. The statue is dated to between 500 and 700 AD . The Sultanganj Buddha was cast in pure, unrefined copper by the cire perdue, or lost wax, technique. Inside there is a clay body. Statue found in 1861 during the construction of the East Indian Railway. It is now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England. E. B. Harris, the railway engineer who discovered the Buddha during excavations that he carried out on ancient remains near the Sultanganj station that he was constructing, published a detailed account of his work, complete with a site plan and photographs. He describes finding the right foot of the Buddha ten feet under the surface, beneath a floor he considered to have been used to conceal the statue after it had been toppled from its former place. Harris sent the statue to Birmingham, the cost of its transport to England being paid by Samuel Thornton, a Birmingham
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 भाषा वैज्ञानिक डॉ राजेंद्र प्रसाद सिंह जी लिखते हैं कि "जॉन एस. स्ट्रांग अमेरिका में रिलीजियस स्टडीज के प्रोफेसर हैं। उन्होंने " द लीजेंड एंड कल्ट आफ उपगुप्त " ( प्रिंसटन, 1992 ) नामक किताब लिखी है। इस किताब में उन्होंने " लोकपणत्ती " ( पालि टेक्स्ट ) के आधार पर बताया है कि भारत की दीवाली एक बौद्ध त्योहार है, जिसका आरंभ सम्राट असोक के समय में हुआ था। इस त्योहार को थाईलैंड में " लोई क्रोथोंग " के नाम से जाना जाता है। यही दीवाली चीन, जापान, बर्मा, कंबोडिया आदि बौद्ध देशों में बौद्ध तरीकों से मनाई जाती है। पोस्ट में संलग्न फ़ोटो थाईलैंड दीवाली का ही एक दृश्य है।" अब प्रश्न यह उठता है कि यदि भारतीय मान्यताओं के अनुसार बुद्ध विष्णु का अवतार होते तथा दिवाली भी राम से संबंधित होती तो यह दोनों धारणाएं भी बौद्ध देशों तक सबसे पहले पहुंची होती? आज भारत के बुद्धिस्टो में भी सुगबुगाहट रहती है और वे दीवाली को दीप दानोत्सव के रूप में मनाते रहे हैं लेकिन बौद्ध मान्यताओं को रिसर्च से प्रमाणिक बल मिलता है जबकि हिन्दू मान्यताओं का केवल भावनात्मक बल दिखता है।  दोनो
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