Buddhism in Pakistan

Taxila (, , ), historically known as Takshashila, is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Rawalpindi District in Punjab province of Pakistan. Founded around , it is one of the oldest cities in South Asia. Taxila is located within the Taxila Tehsil on the Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan, and it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and is just south of the Haripura District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Thatta is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh. Thatta was the medieval capital of Sindh, and served as the seat of power for three successive dynasties. Its construction was ordered by Jam Nizamuddin II in 1495. Thatta's historic significance has yielded several monuments in and around the city. Thatta's Makli Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is site of one of the world's largest cemeteries and has numerous monumental tombs built between the 14th and 18th centuries designed in a syncretic funerary style characteristic of lower Sindh. The city's 17th century Shah Jahan Mosque is

Takht-i-Bahi (Pashto/), is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site is considered among the most important relics of Buddhism in all of what was once Gandhara.

Indo-Greek king

archaeological site in Pakistan

thumb|Gautama Buddha in Greco-Buddhist style, 1st–2nd century AD, [[Gandhara (Peshawar basin, modern day Pakistan).]]

Maues (Greek: ; (epigraphic); Kharosthi: ' , , called , on the Taxila copper plate; also called ' , in the Mathura lion capital inscription,) was the first Indo-Scythian king, ruling from 98/85 to 60/57 BCE. He invaded India and established Saka hegemony by conquering Indo-Greek territories.

Middle Indic language of Gāndhāra attested in the Dharmapada

overview of the historical impact of Buddhism in modern-day Pakistan

Buddhist structure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

stupa on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan

aspect of architecture

cave in Pakistan