 Ruins of the Tepe Sardar Buddhist monastery, on the top of the hill.[1] | |
  Shown within Afghanistan  Tepe Sardar (Hindu-Kush)  Tepe Sardar (South Asia)  Tepe Sardar (West and Central Asia) | |
| Coordinates | 33°33′30″N 68°27′25″E / 33.558436°N 68.45681768°E |
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| Type | Monastery |
Tepe Sardar, also Tapa Sardar or Tepe-e-Sardar, is an ancient Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan. It is located near Ghazni, and it dominates the Dasht-i Manara plain.[2] The site displays two major artistic phases, an Hellenistic phase during the 3rd to 6th century CE, followed by a Sinicized-Indian phase during the 7th to 9th century.[3]
The site was excavated by an Italian Archaeological Mission between the late 1960s and the late 1970s, and again in 2003.[2]
Tapa Sardar is the ruin of a large Buddhist stupa - monastery complex which is located four Kilometers southeast of the city of Ghazni . From 1959 to 1977, the complex has been explored by archaeologists of IsMEO.[4]
- ^ For panorama images of the site see: "The Buddhist site of Tapa Sardar". ghazni.bradypus.net. Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan.
- ^ a b "The Buddhist site of Tapa Sardar". ghazni.bradypus.net. Archives of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan.
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