Place

Gandhara

Northwest India · Modern Pakistan

A crossroads of Greek, Persian, and Indian culture. Birthplace of Panini and of the Gandhara school of Buddhist art, which depicted the Buddha in Greek sculptural style.

Thinkers Connected to Gandhara

Panini

c. 4th century BCE

He wrote the most complete grammar of any language in the ancient world. Four thousand rules, no exceptions, total precision.

Vasubandhu

c. 320 CE – c. 400 CE

The master who mapped the whole of early Buddhist thought, then crossed over to argue that the world we see is mind only.

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