Alice Casalini: The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, LondonThe art of Gandhāra—a region stretching across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan—has often been heralded as prime example of proto-globalization: its rich and syncretic visual vocabulary that freely borrows from Hellenistic, Iranian and Indian models easily lends itself to this discourse in the early centuries of the first millennium. Aquatic imagery in Gandhāra is one…