Tapa Shotor

Tapa Shotor
(Hadda)
Tapa Shotor seated Buddha, with Classical figures of Herakles (left, as Vajrapani) and Tyche (right, as Hariti), in Niche V2, 2nd century CE. Photographed in 1981 by Louis Dupree, before its destructions by the Taliban in 1992.
Shown within Afghanistan
Tapa Shotor (Gandhara)
Tapa Shotor (South Asia)
Coordinates34°21′58″N 70°28′08″E / 34.366041°N 70.468981°E / 34.366041; 70.468981
TypeBuddhist monastery
History
Founded1st century BCE
Abandoned9th century CE

Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"), was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. 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.

In 1992, the Taliban looted and then set Tapa Shotor on fire.

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