Tapa Shotor
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Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor, was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of
Tapa Shotor seated Buddha, with Classical figures of Herakles (left, as Vajrapani) and Tyche (right, as Hariti), in Niche V2, 2nd century CE. Photographed in 1981 by Louis Dupree, before its destructions by the Taliban in 1992.
Head of a Buddha or Bodhisattva, facing (4th-5th century), probably Hadda, Tapa Shotor.
Seated Buddha, Tapa Shotor (Niche V1).
Figures of Herakles-Vajrapani with thunderbolt and Tyche-Hariti with cornucopia flanking a Buddha at Tapa Shotor, 2nd century. This is unique photograph as the sculpture was destroyed in 1992 by the Taliban.
Greco-Buddhist art
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The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gan
Tapa Shotor
…near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of Tapa Shotor suggests that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara descended directly from the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum. In 1992, the Taliban looted and then set Tapa Shotor on fire…
Gandhara Buddha
Bimaran Casket 2
Kushan Maitreya
The Buddha and a naked Vajrapani in a frieze at Jamal Garhi, Gandhara.