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Sunday, March 4, 2006
TEHRAN, Mar. 4 (MNA) -- A team of Iranian and Japanese experts have discovered remnants of Buddhist culture at a site near Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday.
The team, which began their research work last year, believes that they will find a Buddhist temple at the site. The Iranian director of the team, Hamid Fahimi, said that nineteen sites in the provinces of Zanjan, West Azerbaijan, Central, Kurdestan, Hamedan, and Khorasan Razavi were studied, and the Pirestir site near Sabzevar was the location where Buddhist ruins were discovered. According to Fahimi, architectural ruins, historical documents, and the local oral history have provided more evidence that Buddhists lived at the site in the late Sassanid and early Islamic eras.
Fahimi believes that Sufism is influenced by the Buddhist religion and that there are many Iranian stories which came from Buddhism where only the names have been changed.
The Japanese team is directed by Tsuchi Hashirikobe and the experts come from NIFS (Japan’s Nara International Foundation) a public-service corporation established by the governor of Nara prefecture in July 1989, aims to develop Nara into a center for historical and cultural research on the Silk Road, based on the achievements of the Silk Road Exposition of 1988.
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Remnants of Buddhist culture found in Khorasan Razavi
MehrNews - RM/HG
Sunday, March 4, 2006
TEHRAN, Mar. 4 (MNA) -- A team of Iranian and Japanese experts have discovered remnants of Buddhist culture at a site near Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday.
The team, which began their research work last year, believes that they will find a Buddhist temple at the site. The Iranian director of the team, Hamid Fahimi, said that nineteen sites in the provinces of Zanjan, West Azerbaijan, Central, Kurdestan, Hamedan, and Khorasan Razavi were studied, and the Pirestir site near Sabzevar was the location where Buddhist ruins were discovered. According to Fahimi, architectural ruins, historical documents, and the local oral history have provided more evidence that Buddhists lived at the site in the late Sassanid and early Islamic eras.
Fahimi believes that Sufism is influenced by the Buddhist religion and that there are many Iranian stories which came from Buddhism where only the names have been changed.
The Japanese team is directed by Tsuchi Hashirikobe and the experts come from NIFS (Japan’s Nara International Foundation) a public-service corporation established by the governor of Nara prefecture in July 1989, aims to develop Nara into a center for historical and cultural research on the Silk Road, based on the achievements of the Silk Road Exposition of 1988.
Sunday, March 4, 2006
TEHRAN, Mar. 4 (MNA) -- A team of Iranian and Japanese experts have discovered remnants of Buddhist culture at a site near Sabzevar, Khorasan Razavi Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday.
The team, which began their research work last year, believes that they will find a Buddhist temple at the site. The Iranian director of the team, Hamid Fahimi, said that nineteen sites in the provinces of Zanjan, West Azerbaijan, Central, Kurdestan, Hamedan, and Khorasan Razavi were studied, and the Pirestir site near Sabzevar was the location where Buddhist ruins were discovered. According to Fahimi, architectural ruins, historical documents, and the local oral history have provided more evidence that Buddhists lived at the site in the late Sassanid and early Islamic eras.
Fahimi believes that Sufism is influenced by the Buddhist religion and that there are many Iranian stories which came from Buddhism where only the names have been changed.
The Japanese team is directed by Tsuchi Hashirikobe and the experts come from NIFS (Japan’s Nara International Foundation) a public-service corporation established by the governor of Nara prefecture in July 1989, aims to develop Nara into a center for historical and cultural research on the Silk Road, based on the achievements of the Silk Road Exposition of 1988.
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