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Taxila, Pakistan, the world's cultural heritage, when you see this place on the trip, Cat excited, but soon poured cold water, Taxila really go, but not that Don Xuan stout preaching place, but the Taxila Heavy Machinery - China aided the seventies. After the morning tour visiting the factory, finally came to the site from the Se Kapu near Taxila Archaeological Museum, then had two in the afternoon, the hottest time of day, the flowers and trees were wrapped in the Greek style building where there is no air conditioning, relying on several fan "buzz" trying to turn the heat expelled.

Taxila, the ancient India, one of the four Buddhist holy sites, but also in South Asia one of the earliest human settlements in the Tang Xuan Zang's "Buddhist Records, " translated as "the beginning of Lo Tan fork, " when a "West Travels "in the" Western Paradise "of the prototype is not known, but the fact is that as early as the Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian in 405 AD to 411 years to visit this place, as the famous" Big Leiyinsi "Tianzhu country at the time said that bad Tuo Temple, but unfortunately in 1203, Nalanda was completely razed to the ground war, since disappeared. Until 1915, India, according to archaeologists, "Buddhist Records, " to find its site, located in northeast India today 比哈尔邦拉杰 Gill (Rajgir, the ancient Chinese translation Rajgir) near Balagong (Baragoan ) village.


Taxila, but 35 km from Islamabad, the city formerly known as "塔克西哈拉" Sanskrit "stone city" means, as early as the 7th century BC, Taxila is the capital of Gandhara country, busy, from frequent business travel. This city has gone through the Persian civilization, Greek civilization and the erosion of civilization and Buddhist civilization three kinds of baptism, and today only the foundations of the year city just because time is limited, we can not go to visit the ruins have been excavated, only to relics collection The Taxila museum.

Museum is small, only one hall, two L-shaped exhibition hall and an open porch, is divided into three areas only by architectural consultants in Punjab, Sullivan (Sullivan) design, after 10 years completed. Use the Taxila museum wall when the real estate gray schist, two thousand years ago, the same stone used to build a thriving city of Buddhist culture - Taxila, now is the local housing construction is still the main raw material, the red brick of the museum roof tile, roof, use a teak interior, that the Persians used to construct their magnificent palace in Taxila.
Askew on the wall at the entrance is Taxila archaeological portrait of the discoverer - Englishman Sir John Marshall • • Hubert (Sir John Hubert Marshall, 1876 年 -1958), the 1902 recommendation of the London Museum next, as the British Secretary for Indian archaeological, under the auspices of his excavated Harappa, Mo Hengzuo - daro and Taxila and other cultural sites. Marshall the best years of life dedicated to Taxila, he found the independent Greek, Parthian, and Kushan period, a large number of urban sites and the Buddhist pagoda and monastery, these findings help to establish bullock Tuo Luo years of history and art representatives. Living in British India back to Britain after 32 years of painstaking research and writing, and wrote a series of archaeological works, the most important thing is he Taxila Buddhist works of art to explore the results of years of research - "Gandhara Buddhist art "(The Buddhist Art of Gandhara).
Taxila museum Gandhara Dynasty stone and clay statues of the most famous Gandhara (Gandhara) to Taxila was originally centered around the names, the first century AD people who built your Da Yueshi cream capital of the Kingdom, also known as the Gandhara country, located in northwest India, the Kabul River today, the five river basins of the North. Kushan people migrate around 170 years BC to the Amu Darya River basin, and more than tin, and-conquer Bach Patel, and then captured the Kabul River, the last occupation of Gandhara, its capital Peshawar. Buddha's most famous rulers of the Kushan people tired of the color gamma sponsored academic and artistic, in his reign, Buddhism has been boosted, Gandhara art has an excellent development. .