Abstract
Apart from the standard monasteries with their impressive statue chamber there are also small shrines.
uninhabited, sometimes called vihära, which housed a statue of the Buddha or a Bodhisattva. Often.
as at the Dharmaräjika stüpa at Taxila. such shrines are located close to a centre of devotion. Others
may have stood alone and will today hardly furnish enough remnants to indicate their former nature.
Adherents of these local shrines may have furnished them with necessary implements like lamps and
earthenware. In some lucky cases these iterns were inscribed and have survived the centuries to be
studied today. I present here five such items, two of them not yet published. Their inscriptions suggest
that the donations were made either to a very special Bodhisattva or to a monk looking after the shrine.
HARRY FALK . (2010) Named Sanctuaries and another Fire-hall in Gandhära , Pakistan Heritage, Volume 2, Issue 1.
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