Harwan Buddhist Monastery
- It is a 2000 years old bhuddhist monastery situated in Harwan area, on the outskirts of Srinagar at the foothills of Zabarwan range.
- Among the excavated remains is the three-tiered base of a Stupa, a set of rooms in diaper pebble style of masonry and the decorated terracotta tiles surrounding it.
- The walls of the structures are constructed in what has been called ‘Diaper Rubble style’ where in a large number of undressed boulders are placed in row and intervening space filled with small stones.
- Many historians believe that the fourth Buddhist Council was convened by the Kushan emperor and devout Buddhist ....
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