Talk:Ghazni Province
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
Ghazni Province is part of the WikiProject Afghanistan, a project to maintain and expand Afghanistan-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. |
 |
This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Buddhism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Buddhism. Please participate by editing the article Ghazni Province, or visit the project page for more details on the projects.
|
||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. | ||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. | ||
|
Article Grading: |
|||
 |
It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality.
Wikipedians in Afghanistan may be able to help! |
| The Free Image Search Tool (FIST) may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites. |
Looks like the districts have been split - there now appear to be twenty (http://www.aims.org.af/services/mapping/geo_codes/398_dist_matching_to_329.xls). I'll try to get it up to date eventually, but there's a hell of a lot of other missing districts to sort out as well. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 17:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History
Maybe it is a good idea to start this article with the chapter about the history of Ghazni? (Rob)
[edit] Buddhism and Indian influence
Here s the complete quote , a section of which I have incorporated in the History section along with the complete citation .
| “ | If we leave the Gandhara by the Khyber pass we come out in the plain of the Kabul river where the great monastic complexof Hadda near present day Jalalabad was erected around a Stupa containing a Relic of Buddha . The site may be regarded as the first relay station between the art of Gandhara and the art which was to spread through Afghanistan and throughout Central Asia .The iconography which appears in Hadda is the expression of a Buddhism in which there is still no clear differentiation between Buddha and Bodhisatva . Besides the favourite material of the artists of Hadda (second fifth centuries ), which the modeled and painted , is the one we encounter most frequently in Central Asia .
In order to reach Bactria and Sogdiana it was necessary to cross the Hindu Kush by way of the valley of Bamiyan . There and in the neighbouring valleys (Foladi and Kakrak) an important religious center developed whose influence was to develop far beyond the local frontiers . Neither the accounts of the forms of Buddhism found in Bamiyan (provide mainly by Chinese pilgrims ) nor the archaeological remains tell us anything very definite .However that may be the colossal Buddhas and the paintingsalready reflect the transformations that were gradually to lead the religion to Mahayana . The two other great Buddhist centers , Fondukistan and Tepe-e-sardar (Ghazni) in its later phase are a very different matter and display another phase of influences coming from India from the seventh to eighth century . The representations show themes from Mahayana iconography and even in the case of the latter site assume Tantric aspects which had already established themselves in the large Indian monasteries like Nalanda.[1] |
” |
Cheers
Intothefire (talk) 07:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
