Buddhism in Pakistan
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Buddhism in Pakistan
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Buddhism in Pakistan took root some 2,300 years ago under the Mauryan king Ashoka who sent missionaries to the Kashmira-Gandhara region of North West Pakistan extending into Afghanistan, following the Third Buddhist council in Pataliputra. Buddhism first reached what is now Pakistan during Ashoka’s reign when he sent a monk from Varanasi called Majjhantika to preach in Kashmir and Gandhara. The Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka inscribed on rock boulders in Mansehra and Shahbaz Garhi written in the Kh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Pakistan
date created:
2007-01-24T13:11:07Z
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2024-09-10T14:20:32Z
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