Width: 53 cm The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire.

The pose illustrates Buddha's first sermon on "setting in motion the Wheel of Law" at the deer park at Sarnath[2] near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

[1] This statue was used as the inspiration of a BBC Radio 4 programme in the series called A History of the World in 100 Objects in May 2010.

The programme discussed the change that allowed Buddha to be represented by a statue instead of as previously by symbols alone.

[6] These Buddhas are widely considered to be the rarest of all Buddhist sculptures and despite iconoclasm, they can be found in the museums of France, Germany, Japan, Korea, China, India, and Afghanistan as well as those still remaining in Pakistan.