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Tapa Shotor

Ada Ahonzadah, Italy

Tapa Shotor

Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"), was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. According to archaeologist Raymond Allchin, the site of Tapa Shotor suggests that the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara descended directly from

the art of Hellenistic Bactria, as seen in Ai-Khanoum. In 1992, the Taliban looted and then set Tapa Shotor on fire.

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