Hazara art during the Kushans

Hazara people are Turkic people and descendants of the Kushans. There are also Mongol influences in less than ten percent of Hazaras. Hazara People are living in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and central Asian countries like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Millions of Hazara people were and are forced to leave their homeland, the country we call Afghanistan now.
Buddhas of Bamyan
A Symbol of Hazara Culture, Art and History in Hazaristan

: Kushan prince, making a donation to a Bodhisattva

: Kushan costume

: Detail of the face of a Kushan devotee

: Flaming Buddha with Kushan devotees around Maitreya

: Maitreya, with Kushan devotee couple. 2nd century Gandhara

: Detail of Kushan devotee

: Maitreya, with Kushan devotees, left and right, 2nd century Gandhara

: Kushans worshipping the Buddha’s bowl. 2nd century Gandhara

: The “Kanishka casket”, with the Buddha surrounded by Brahma and Indra, and Kanishka on the lower part, 127

: Buddha triad and kneeling Kushan devotee couple. 3rd century

: Kushan devotee (Mathura)

: Kushan devotee in the traditional costume with tunic and boots, 2nd century, Gandhara

: Butkara stupa under the Kushans.

: The Qila Mubarak fort at Bathinda, India was built by Kanishka.

: Offerings found in Bodh Gaya under the “Enlightenment Throne of the Buddha”, with a decorated coin of the Kushan emperor Huvishka, 3rd century AD. British Museum.

: A Buddhist devotee in Kushan dress, Mathura, 2nd century. The Kushan dress is generally depicted as quite stiff, and it is thought it was often made of leather (Francine Tissot, “Gandhara”).