Raw data
"211. Wardak
Wardak Province. Near Chak-i Wardak, 14 kilometers west of the Kabul-Ghazni road, on the road to Besud.
Date: Kushan, 2nd-3rd century AD (architectural, ceramic evidence)
A large fortified urban site with a regular, grid street plan and inner and outer enclosures. The outer enclosure is strengthened at regular intervals by round towers, and is fuither defended on two sides by a ditch. There is only one entrance. Outside the walled city there are many more remains, including a dam and canal system, a fortified monastery complex, and some five or six stupas, one of which contained metal vases, a steatite vase with a Kharoshthi inscription, and several Kushan coins, now at the British Museum.
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Latitude 34.133333° N Longitude 68.633333° E"
DoDLRMP and CEMML (2010:#211 Wardak)
Buddhist stupas at Kushan sites include those at Wardak, thirty miles west of Kabul - Emeric (n.d.)
Input by: tmciolek, Aug 17, 2010
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 30 Jul 2014
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 Wardak monastery, AF.
Lat 34.133333 Long 68.633333
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2010.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Wardak monastery - DoDLRMP and CEMML (2010:#211 Wardak)
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- Afghanistan:Velayat-e Vardak
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- [missing data]
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx., Lat 34.133333 Long 68.633333 - DoDLRMP and CEMML (2010:#211 Wardak)
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- Chak-e Vardak - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AF/27/Chake_Vardak.html
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Chak-i Wardak - DoDLRMP and CEMML (2010:#211 Wardak)
- Cake Wardak - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AF/27/Chake_Vardak.html
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 34.1500 Long 68.6000 - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AF/27/Chake_Vardak.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- [missing data]
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- 2nd-3rd century CE (architectural, ceramic evidence) - DoDLRMP and CEMML (2010:#211 Wardak)
MBM chrono-tag: <=0200 0200-32p 0233-66p - tmciolek 30 Jul 2014
<=0200 0200-32p 0233-66p 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
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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