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Description: | Photograph of a distant view of the village and stupa at Ishpola, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, taken by Joseph David Beglar around the 1870s. A stupa is a hemispherical monument which would have formed the focus of worship at Buddhist religious sites such as Ishpola. Made from earth faced with bricks, to devotees, a stupa directly represents the Buddha. In northern Pakistan Buddhism grew in popularity from the first century AD onwards under the patronage of a dynasty of kings called the Kushans. Particularly under a Kushan king called Kanishka, monasteries sprang up all over the area that we now call Peshawar. The stupa shown here would have probably been attached to a monastery or vihara. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Beglar, Joseph David | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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