OFFSCREEN EXPEDITIONS EDUCATIONEPISODE 04

 

INTRODUCTION TO TAXILA 

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GANDHARA WAS A GANDHARA WAS A CIVILIZATION ON THE CIVILIZATION ON THE BORDER OF PRESENT BORDER OF PRESENT DAY PAKISTAN AND DAY PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM AFGHANISTAN FROM 530 BCE TO 1021 CE530 BCE TO 1021 CE

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GANDHARA IS GANDHARA IS BEST KNOWN BEST KNOWN FOR A STYLE OF FOR A STYLE OF BUDDHIST ART BUDDHIST ART THAT MIXED THAT MIXED WESTERN AND WESTERN AND ASIAN STYLES. ASIAN STYLES.

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THIS ARTISTIC CROSSOVER THIS ARTISTIC CROSSOVER HAPPENED BECAUSE GANDHARA HAPPENED BECAUSE GANDHARA WAS AT THE CROSSROADS OF WAS AT THE CROSSROADS OF DIFFERENT EMPIRES AND DIFFERENT EMPIRES AND CULTURES.CULTURES.

GREEKGREEK

PERSIANPERSIAN

CHINESECHINESE

INDIANINDIAN

MIDDLE EASTERNMIDDLE EASTERN

CENTRAL ASIANCENTRAL ASIAN

GANDHARAGANDHARA

IN 1980 THIS AREA WAS IN 1980 THIS AREA WAS RECOGNISED AS A WORLD RECOGNISED AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITEHERITAGE SITE

ONE OF THE SITES IN THE ONE OF THE SITES IN THE TAXILA REGION IS JAULIAN TAXILA REGION IS JAULIAN SAID TO BE THE FIRST SAID TO BE THE FIRST UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD.UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD.

THE MONASTERY WAS THE MONASTERY WAS ARRANGED ON TWO STOREYS ARRANGED ON TWO STOREYS AND INCLUDED KITCHENS, AND INCLUDED KITCHENS, PRAYER ROOMS AS WELL AS PRAYER ROOMS AS WELL AS MONKS’ CELLS.MONKS’ CELLS.

THIS AREA IN THE MIDDLE THIS AREA IN THE MIDDLE WAS A CROSS BETWEEN A WAS A CROSS BETWEEN A SWIMMING POOL AND A BATH SWIMMING POOL AND A BATH FOR THE MONKS TO WASH IN.FOR THE MONKS TO WASH IN.

ALL THE GUIDES THAT WE ALL THE GUIDES THAT WE MET WERE VERY PROUD OF MET WERE VERY PROUD OF PAKISTAN’S MULTI-CULTURAL PAKISTAN’S MULTI-CULTURAL HERITAGE…HERITAGE…

……EXPLAINING THAT THEY STILL EXPLAINING THAT THEY STILL FELT THE TRADITIONS OF FELT THE TRADITIONS OF MEDITATION EVEN THOUGH THEY MEDITATION EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MUSLIM AND NOT ARE MUSLIM AND NOT BUDDHIST.BUDDHIST.