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nice thread about my home :)

aah, the good old Peshawar!! :rolleyes:

did you know that:

1) it is more than 2000 years old
2) that kaniksha stupa, on its outskirts back some 2000 years ago was the tallest building in the world at that time at 700 feet !! :eek:

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Well, keep the pictures coming people! :tup:
 






Peshawar in the 1920s Visit of HRH Prince of Wales.









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Islamia College, Peshawar





Peshawar Museum



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Inside the Peshawar Museum (there's many ancient Buddhist artifacts dating back from thousands of years ago displayed in this museum).



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Inside Peshawar Museum



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Inside Peshawar Museum
 

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nice thread about my home :)

aah, the good old Peshawar!! :rolleyes:

did you know that:

1) it is more than 2000 years old
2) that kaniksha stupa, on its outskirts back some 2000 years ago was the tallest building in the world at that time at 700 feet !! :eek:

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Well, keep the pictures coming people! :tup:

The Kanishka stupa was a monumental stupa established by the Kushan king Kanishka during the 2nd century CE in today's Shah-ji-Dheri on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Archaeologists have examined the remains of the structure and determined that it had a diameter of 286 feet. Ancient Chinese manuscripts tell of Buddhist pilgrims reporting that the stupa had a height of 591–689 feet (The measurements they stated were in Chinese units, which were 600–700. This height was equal to about 180–210 meters or 591–689 feet.

Sung Yun describes the stupa in the following terms:

"The king proceeded to widen the foundation of the Great Tower 300 paces and more. To crown all, he placed a roof-pole upright and even. Throughout the building he used ornamental wood, he constructed stairs to lead to the top....there was an iron-pillar, 3-feet high with thirteen gilded circlets. Altogether the height from the ground was 700 feet.”

The stupa was discovered and excavated in 1908–1909 by a British archælogical mission, and led to the discovery in its base of the Kanishka casket, a six-sided rock crystal reliquary containing three small fragments of bone,[1] relics of the Buddha (which were transferred to Mandalay, Burma for safekeeping, where they still remain), and a dedication in Kharoshthi involving Kanishka.[2]

According to Buddhist the building of the stupa was foretold by the Buddha:

"The Buddha, pointing to a small boy making a mud tope….[said] that on that spot Kanishka would erect a tope by his name." Vinaya sutra [3]
The same story is repeated in a Khotanese scroll found at Dunhuang, which first described how Kanishka would arrive 400 years after the death of the Buddha. The account also describes how Kanishka came to raise his stupa:

"A desire thus arose in [Kanishka to build a vast stupa]….at that time the four world-regents learnt the mind of the king. So for his sake they took the form of young boys….[and] began a stupa of mud....the boys said to [Kanishka] ‘We are making the Kanishka-stupa.’….At that time the boys changed their form....[and] said to him, ‘Great king, by you according to the Buddha’s prophecy is a Sangharama to be built wholly (?) with a large stupa and hither relics must be invited which the meritorious good beings...will bring."

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Remnants of the Kanishka Stupa in Shah-Ji-Ki-Dheri.



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The famous inscribed Kanishka Casket found at the site of the Kanishka Stupa and containing relics of the Buddha.




Buddha relics from Kanishka's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan, now in Mandalay, Burma. Teresa Merrigan, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanishka_stupa


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^@ Omar! Nice History bro! thanx, really amazing :)

Artist impression of Khyber Pass in British Times:

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Khyber Pass today:



Khyber Medical College (KMC):



Khyber Medical College and Teaching Hospital Golden Jubilee commemoration stamp:

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