Raw data
Ghai Buddhist Monastery : This is a third or fourth century monastery whose high wall are still standing. The monastery is unusual because the monks' cells surround a square hall with sloping windows instead of an open court.
http://oneworldpakistan.com/trips_taxilla.php
"There is also […] the Ghai Stupa within the Sirkap city wall. […] Ghai Monastery is on a hill inside the city wall of Sirkap. It is a third or fourth century monastery whose high wall are still standing. The monastery is unusual because the monks' cells surr surround a square hall with sloping windows instead of an open court."
http://www.pakwatan.com/travel_detail.php?id=50
Input by: tmciolek, July 13, 2012
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 02 Apr 2013
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 2 km from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Ghai monastery, PK.
Lat 33.7553 Long 72.8297
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2012.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Ghai monastery -
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- Pakistan: Punjab
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- [missing data]
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Very likely the ruins of Ghai monastery are those at approx., Lat 33.7553 Long 72.8297 - based on the visual identification of the remnants of a large square structure and a possible stupa W of the monastery, in maps, http://maps.google.com/ - tmciolek, 25 Jul 2012.
- The monastery is a part of the Taxila monastic cluster
- Other monasteries from the Taxila cluster include:
- Badalpur monastery
- Bhallar monastery
- Bhamala-1 monastery
- Bhamala-2 monastery
- Chhema monastery
- Dharmarajika monastery
- Giri-1 monastery
- Giri-2 monastery
- Jaulian monastery
- Jinan Wali Dheri monastery
- Kalawan monastery
- Kunala monastery
- Karmala monastery
- Lalchak monastery
- Mohra Moradu monastery
- Pippala monastery
6. Ancient name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- TAXILA
- Close to the modern city of Wah - Lat 33.7983 Long 72.6956 http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/4/Wah.html
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Takṣaśilā - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila
- Takshaçila (Prince of the Serpent Tribe) (Sanskrit) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Takkasilâ (Pali) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Taxila (Greek) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Taxilla (Roman Latin) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Chu-ch'a-shi-lo (Chinese) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Sirkap (Severed Head) - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/139
- Sirkup - http://maps.google.com/
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Taxila Ruins of Sirkup, approx., Lat 33.755 Long 72.829 - based on the visual identification of the site in maps, http://maps.google.com/ - tmciolek, 13 Jul 2012.
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- [missing data]
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- a third or fourth century CE monastery - http://oneworldpakistan.com/trips_taxilla.php
- MBM chrono-tag 0200-32p 0233-66p 0267-99p 0300-32p 0333-66p 0367-99p - tmciolek 02 Apr 2013
- 0200-32p 0233-66p 0267-99p 0300-32p 0333-66p 0367-99p dated-e
12. Date-intermediate
- [missing data]
13. Date-late
- [missing data]
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- [missing data]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- archaeological, architectural
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
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