About: Shotorak monastery

An Entity of Type: SpatialThing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Shotorak monastery, at Kuh-i Pahlawan, Kapisa Province, is an ancient monastery located in modern Afghanistan. It was positioned together with Paitava monastery around the city of Kapisa, 40 km north of Kabul, which was the northern capital of the Kushan Empire. Beautiful sculptures of Buddhist donors in Kushan dress are known from this site. Paitava, with Shorotak, have an artistic usage of representing the Buddha with fire emanating from the shoulders in the miracle of Sravasti, a feature also found on the effigies of Kushan kings on their coinage.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Shotorak monastery, at Kuh-i Pahlawan, Kapisa Province, is an ancient monastery located in modern Afghanistan. It was positioned together with Paitava monastery around the city of Kapisa, 40 km north of Kabul, which was the northern capital of the Kushan Empire. Beautiful sculptures of Buddhist donors in Kushan dress are known from this site. Paitava, with Shorotak, have an artistic usage of representing the Buddha with fire emanating from the shoulders in the miracle of Sravasti, a feature also found on the effigies of Kushan kings on their coinage. * * * * * * (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 57827095 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3174 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1061872697 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • Meditating Buddha, Shotorak, 2-3rd century CE. (en)
dbp:mapType
  • South Asia#Afghanistan (en)
dbp:name
  • Shotorak (en)
dbp:relief
  • yes (en)
dbp:type
  • Monastery (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 34.930701 69.43295
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Shotorak monastery, at Kuh-i Pahlawan, Kapisa Province, is an ancient monastery located in modern Afghanistan. It was positioned together with Paitava monastery around the city of Kapisa, 40 km north of Kabul, which was the northern capital of the Kushan Empire. Beautiful sculptures of Buddhist donors in Kushan dress are known from this site. Paitava, with Shorotak, have an artistic usage of representing the Buddha with fire emanating from the shoulders in the miracle of Sravasti, a feature also found on the effigies of Kushan kings on their coinage. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Shotorak monastery (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(69.432952880859 34.930702209473)
geo:lat
  • 34.930702 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • 69.432953 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License