Gandharan Art in Its Buddhist Context

Wannaporn Rienjang is Lecturer in Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and a project consultant for the Gandhāra Connections Project at the Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford. She completed her doctoral degree in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2017, and has been involved in research projects focusing on the art and archaeology of Greater Gandhāra, Indian Ocean Trade and ancient working technologies of stone beads and vessels.Peter Stewart is Director of Classical Art Research Centre and Professor of Ancient Art at the University of Oxford. He has worked widely in the fields of Graeco-Roman sculpture and ancient world art. His publications include Statues in Roman Society: Representation and Response (2003), The Social History of Roman Art (2008), and A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (2020).

• Preface – Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-01] ; Selling space at the monastery and making economic sense of the ‘intrusive’ at monastic sites in Gandhāra – Gregory Schopen [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-02] ; Does iconography really matter? Iconographical specification of Buddha images in pre-esoteric Buddhist art – Juhyung Rhi [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-03] ; Solving the riddle of the ‘Muhammad Nari Stele’: a new look – Dessislava Vendova [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-04] ; Early Gandhāran art: artists and working processes at Saidu Sharif I – Luca M. Olivieri [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-05] ; Buddhist art of Gandhāra: a catalogue of newly documented sites in Malakand District – Fozia Naz [DOI: 10.32028/9781803274737-06]