Tapa Shotor
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Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"),[5] was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site.[6] 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.[7]
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Coordinates | 34.366041°N 70.468981°E / 34.366041; 70.468981 |
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Type | Buddhist monastery |
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Founded | 1st century BCE |
Abandoned | 9th century CE |
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The site of Tapa Shotor was destroyed by arson and looted in 1992.[1]