The Buddha of Afghanistan (Gandhara)

(Young Buddhist Association) The History of Buddhism's Spread in Afghanistan | Dharma Friday Incognito, Episode 46

• The Buddha was from Bamiyan and Kabul (Kabil, Kapil, Kapil'avastu), Afghanistan: Dr. Ranajit Pal: Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander
• The Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Bamiyan, Bamyan Province
• Zuhak, Bamyan, Afghanistan
• Mes Aynak ("little source of copper"): world's largest unexcavated Buddhist temple complex
• Mes Aynak mine
• Gandhara, Central Asia/NW Pakistan)
• Buddhism in Central Asia
• Bactria, Central Asia
• Ajinateppa (Ajina Tepe), Tajikistan
• Seleucid Empire, West Asia

(TarikhNamah) Afghanistan was once the center of the Buddhist World

(The Global Buddhist) The Lost Buddhist Kingdom of Afghanistan | Forgotten Heart of Buddhism

• (OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion) The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: The Intellectual Prehistory of Islamist Iconoclasm (dry lecture from UCLA)
• Young Buddhist Association; The Global Buddhist; Tarikh Namah; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly