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Ghandarâ is the name of a region situated in the border of Afghanistan and current Pakistan which, between VIth century BC and the VIIth century AD, is a multi-ethnic region where Persians, Indians, Greeks and Tribes Nomads of Central Asia meet. It is through this art of Ghandarâ that the Buddha takes human shape. This image settles then which shows him with a buckle of hair on the forehead - the urna-, a cranial protuberance - the usnisha - and all the range of its canonical gestures, "mudras".
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