Taxila
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Taxila , archaeological site of three successive cities, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. There between the 7th cent. BC and the 7th cent. AD was a flourishing city, famous as an ancient seat of learning. It was occupied (326 BC) by Alexander the Great, became prosperous under the empire of Asoka, and was overrun (c.1st-2d cent. AD) by the Kushans. It was a center of Buddhist studies and was visited in the 7th cent. by Hsüan-tsang . There are remains of Buddhist stupas and monasteries as well as sculpture of the Gandharan school of art.
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