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Amluk-Dara stupa is located in Swat valley of Pakistan. It is a part of Gandhara civilization at Amluk-Dara. The stupa is believed to have been built in the third century. The stupa was first discovered by a Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein in 1926. It was later studied by Domenico Faccena in the 60s and 70s. The foundation of the stupa is a square plinth about 4 meters thick. This is surmounted by a hemispherical dome measuring 7 meter in height and 21 meters in diameter, making it visible for miles around it. Though it is the best example of a stupa in Swat, it is unprotected and is being damaged by treasure seekers

 Ruins of once grand temples are strewn around north India. Almost all of them date back to what is variously known in prevalent textbooks as the 'medieval period' of Indian history. British authors of Indian history called it the 'Muslim' period of Indian history. Historians associated with the Indian History Congress routinely gave lectures on how some other name needed to be used but still, the Indian History Congress-- dominated by historians from Aligarh and Delhi-- has continued to divide its scholarly efforts into the 'ancient', 'medieval' and 'modern' period. Almost all the departments of history in the universities of India too are divided in the same manner. The British had called the ancient period as the Hindu period, the medieval period as the Muslim period and the modern period was associated with  British rule.

Territories "conquered by the Dhamma" according to Major Rock Edict No.13 of Ashoka (260–232 BCE). According to historian Louis Robert, it becomes quite likely that these Kandahar Greeks who were very familiar with Indian culture could in turn transmit Indian ideas to the philosophical circles of the Mediterranean world, in Seleucia, Antioch, Alexandria, Pella or Cyrene.  He suggests that the famous Ashoka emissaries sent to the Western Hellenistic Courts according to Ashoka's Major Rock Edict No.13 were in fact Greek subjects and citizens of Kandahar, who had the full capacity to carry out these embassies. Another document, the Mahavamsa (XII, 1st paragraph), also states that in the 17th year of his reign, at the end of the Third Buddhist Council, Ashoka sent Buddhist missionaries to eight parts of Southern Asia and the "country of the Yonas" (Greeks) to propagate Buddhism. Presence in the West Overall, the evidence for the presence of Buddhists in the west fro

A buried stupa was discovered by William Claxton Peppe, a British colonial engineer and landowner of an estate at Piprahwa in January 1898. Following the severe famine that decimated Northern India in 1897, Peppe led a team in excavating a large earthen mound on his land. Having cleared away scrub and jungle, they set to work building a deep trench through the mound. After digging through 18 feet of solid brickwork, they came to a large stone coffer which contained five small vases containing bone fragments, ashes, and jewels. On one of the vases was a Dhamma script which was translated by Georg Bühler, a leading European epigraphist of the time, to mean: Sukiti-bhatinaṃ sabhaginikanam sa-puta-dalanam iyaṃ salila-nidhane Budhasa bhagavate sakiyanam. "This relic-shrine of divine Buddha (is the donation) of the Sakya-Sukiti brothers, associated with their sisters, sons, and wives, This inscription implied that the bone fragments were part of the remains of Gautama Buddha, the founde

 The ancient province of Kalinga, where the last battle of Emperor Ashoka's reign was fought, is now divided into the states of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. BC After the war in the 3rd century, this region came under Maurya rule. Kalinga is the eastern coastal region of India. It currently falls in the Ganjam district of Orissa. The name Babuneshwar, Bengal, Bangladesh originated from Buddhist culture. The people of Kalinga were well versed in many sciences. His main occupation was shipbuilding. There were big ports near the coast. There was foreign trade from there. Therefore, the culture that flourished in this region was called Utkal. Kalinga The Great Ashoka   The Dhauli hills in Kalinga province are situated on the banks of the Daya River. This place is at a distance of 8 km from Bhubaneshwar. Except for the hills, the rest of the area is flat. Here is the inscription of Emperor Ashoka. And this place is considered to be the site of Kalinga war. The