BUDDHISM AND BALOCHISTAN

About 1500 years ago Buddhism had a huge sway in Balochistan especially in the coastal areas.The famous Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsang while passing thru lower Balochistan noted that Buddhism was thriving there, particularly in the Las Bela region and that there were 100s of functioning monasteries and 1000s of monks.The forgotten cave city of Gondrani (Sher-e-Roghan),near Las Bela is in all probability the remains of a Buddhist monastery of that period.Remains of almost identical Buddhist monasteries are still present in Northern areas of Pakistan,in Tibet and Nepal.In the pics shown can be seen pics of pages from a book detailing Hiuen Tsang's travels in Balochistan; of the traveler himself;the sepia pic is of the remains of a stupa at Duki near Dear Bugti;the remaining pics are of the forgotten and mysterious cave city of Gondrani near Las Bela , Balochistan

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• Gondrani
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• Pakistan
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[quettabalochistan]

dear pcconf i dont see were u saw 'british india' written in any of the videos.plz do highlite so i cn check it and if needed it b corrected.take care by

[madhamagan]

Brohi1982,

Believe me no one wants to convert you.

World do not want any kind of Islamic shadow on hinduism or any other religion.

Everyone including you knows what muslim does to this world.

[GrandmasterTigerfist]

Buddhisms greatness and its teachings will reach out to the world today the worlds most leading nation China is watching the riise of Buddhism is its society and contribution to social harmony which even made communist party of china to change several steps in its policies..

Good to see that Buddhism is getting attention in pakistan..

[rebelfromlahore]

Balochistan rocks baby !

[ajoeebalochistan]

insh allah azaad balochistan

[beatsrymessk8boardz]

cool

[ahmad1317]

Quetta Balochistan, u really educate the people about Balochistan. As we know the Balochs are just taught about Porkistan's culture in the school.

[GABEUDEU]

You are Muslim Baloch and proud about it, dont you? good my friend!But stop to see the manipulation everywhere, no one oblige you  to converse to Buddhism, Buddhist never destroyed temple or image of other faith try to converse to their own religion,but sorry the opposite did(and continue) to happens so who try to mischief? I dont want hurt you, just make you thinking we have to live in the respect of each other and the world shall be much more better I wish you Eid Mubarak