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ས་འཛིན། | Glossary of Terms
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གན་དྷ་ར།
- བ་ལང་འཛིན།
- ས་འཛིན།
- sa ’dzin
- gan d+ha ra
- ba lang ’dzin
- gan dha ra
- gandhāra
- gandhara
- gāndhāra
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- Place
- Gāndhāra
- ས་འཛིན།
- sa ’dzin
- gāndhāra
A country.
- Gandhara
- ས་འཛིན།
- sa ’dzin
- gāndhāra AD
The present-day Gandhara region was located in northwest Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan. This region was historically important for the development of Buddhism. In this chapter, Gandhara is identified as the region in which the dwelling place of bodhisattvas called Cave of Provisions is located.
- Gandhāra
- ས་འཛིན།
- sa ’dzin
- gandhāra
An ancient kingdom once located in northwestern India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It lasted from around the sixth century ʙᴄᴇ to the eleventh century ᴄᴇ and attained its height in the first to fifth centuries under the Buddhist Kushan kings.
- Gandhāra
- གན་དྷ་ར།
- gan dha ra
- gandhāra
Name of a region in present-day eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
- Gandhara
- གན་དྷ་ར།
- gan d+ha ra
- gandhara RP
A land to the north of Jambudvīpa.
- Gāndhāra
- བ་ལང་འཛིན།
- ba lang ’dzin
- gāndhāra