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One of the first representations of the #Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE, Gandhara in #Pakistan.
The Standing Buddha of the #Tokyo National Museum is a remarkable example of Greco-Buddhist statuary. Comparable ones can be found in the Guimet Museum in France, and
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in the National Museum, New Delhi besides various other museums of South Asia. The statue was excavated at Gandhara, Pakistan, and dates to the 1st or 2nd century CE.

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Some of the standing Buddhas (such as the example pictured) were sculpted using the
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specific Greek technique of making the hands and sometimes the feet in marble to increase the realistic effect, and the rest of the body in another material.

Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher especially considered Hellenistic free-standing Buddhas as "the most beautiful,
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