Gandhara, the Renaissance Of Buddhism

This documentary is extracted from a series of films make by NHK and France 5 TV channels covering the history of the cultures of the Eurasian landmass and the silk roads that run through it. This film focuses of Gandhāra, which straddles what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan (around the Swat and Kabul Valleys) and the emergent Buddhist culture that arose there just before the Common Era. The film covers the rise and the fall of the religion in the area it covers, and has some interesting interviews with a