Around a year ago I was contacted by Leow Chai Yee, a Harvard and Beijing University scholar who specializes in Gandhāran art. She had recently been on tour in Pakistan to see some of the sites she was interested in. While there she had taken photographs and was now looking to get them published on Photo Dharma.
So over the past year I have been working on getting the photographs edited and described and fit for publication, and today I am happy to say that all nine albums are available on a new page dedicated to Gandhāra on my website.
Two of the albums are from the collections at the Peshawar and Hund Museums, and these are the largest of the collections, with many fine and reasonably well-preserved items in the collections.
But there are also a number of very interesting photographs from three sites around Mardan, that is Takht i Bahi, which is a well-preserved monastery, stūpa and settlement; Jamal Garhi, a monastery, stūpa and settlement excavated by Cunningham; and Aziz Dheri, a recently discovered monastery, stūpa and settlement.
Further there are photographs of four sites around Taxila: the first is the planned city of Sirkap, and the stūpa sites of Mohra Moradu, Jaulian and Dharmarājika. There are also maps so you can see where the sites are.
