The vast store-house of iconic concepts that originated with Mahayana Buddhism in India was transmitted through various channels to East: to China, sparingly to Korea, and often through both, on the Japan. On way from India, the Central Asian Caravan settlements, Buddhist in contents, also lent their hand in this cultural journey through painted and sculptured grottos to enrich this transmitted art carrying with them their own traits. Of these, the Indo-Bactrian ...
