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... Gandhara on the north - western frontier of India , from which the Chinese seem first to have derived their notions of the way in which Buddhist conceptions could be represented . There is , however , a difference ; for in the case of ...
... Gandhara on the north - western frontier of India , from which the Chinese seem first to have derived their notions of the way in which Buddhist conceptions could be represented . There is , however , a difference ; for in the case of ...
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... Gandhara images began to be made in profusion . Whether the first images were made in Gandhara or in India itself is a matter of dispute among scholars : what is certain is that they first appeared at this time , and it was the Gandhara ...
... Gandhara images began to be made in profusion . Whether the first images were made in Gandhara or in India itself is a matter of dispute among scholars : what is certain is that they first appeared at this time , and it was the Gandhara ...
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... Gandhara reliefs in a hybrid style with Graeco - Roman ornament and with atten- dant gods of Hellenistic type . At Tun - huang , on the con- trary , the stories are illustrated on small banners in a purely Chinese style , without the ...
... Gandhara reliefs in a hybrid style with Graeco - Roman ornament and with atten- dant gods of Hellenistic type . At Tun - huang , on the con- trary , the stories are illustrated on small banners in a purely Chinese style , without the ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By J W Mackail | 21 |
THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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