Abstract
Lahore Museum houses invaluable collection of Buddhist sculptures and relief panels
projecting the Gandhara School of art. This is one of the earliest collections in South Asia
which depicts diverse features in terms of quantity and quality as well. The collection
includes some of the rarest pieces due to which it has earned fame all over the world.
Different authors have published some selected sculptures from this collection. All these
series are noteworthy and should be published properly. Identification of some sculptures in
these preliminary reports pose problems. The present paper deals with the reinterpretation of
these selected individual standing Buddha sculptures which have iconographical
significance. The material is worth to be shared with scholars working on the Buddhist art of
Gandhara. Due to wide range and diversity of this collection, this paper focuses exclusively
on the individual standing Buddha sculptures, from 2nd Century C.E. to 4th Century C.E. Most
of these sculptures come from the surrounding areas of Mardan, Peshawar and Malakand
division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and can easily be recognized due to their execution in black,
grey, green and blue schist stone.
MUHAMMAD MUJEEB KHAN, SABAHAT HAMID. (2017) Standing Buddha Sculptures in Stone from the Collection of Lahore Museum: Study and Analysis, Pakistan Heritage, Volume 9 , Issue 1 .
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