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Tapa Shotor
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Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"),[5] was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site.[6] According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of Tapa Shotor suggests that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara descended directly from the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum.[7] Alexander the Great and Herakles are represented together with the Buddha as Vajrapani in niches V2 and V3, thus according to Lucas Christopoulos, demonstrating the adoption of Buddhism by the Indo-Greeks in a context of an "Helleno-Buddhist Universalism."[8] The site of Tapa Shotor was destroyed by arson and looted in 1992.[1]
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Coordinates | 34.366041°N 70.468981°E / 34.366041; 70.468981 |
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Type | Buddhist monastery |
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Founded | 1st century BCE |
Abandoned | 9th century CE |
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