Loriyan Tangai

Loriyan Tangai
A Loriyan Tangai Stupa (reenactment).
Religion
Affiliation	Buddhism
Region	Gandhara
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Stupa ruins
Year consecrated	2nd century CE
Status	Artifacts removed
Location
Location	Pakistan
Shown within Pakistan Loriyan Tangai (Gandhara) Show map of PakistanShow map of GandharaShow all
Geographic coordinates	34°32′04″N 71°52′16″E / 34.5344°N 71.8711°E / 34.5344; 71.8711Coordinates: 34°32′04″N 71°52′16″E / 34.5344°N 71.8711°E / 34.5344; 71.8711

Loriyan Tangai is an archaeological site in the Gandhara area of Pakistan, consisting of many stupas and religious buildings where many Buddhist statues were discovered.

The stupas were excavated by Alexander Caddy in 1896, and the many statues of the site sent to the Indian Museum of Calcutta.^[1]

Buddha "of the year 318"[]

One of the statues of the Buddha from Loriyan Tangai has an inscription mentioning "the year 318". The era in question is not specified, but it is now thought, following the discovery of the Bajaur reliquary inscription, that it is about the Yavana era beginning in 174 BCE, and gives a date for the Buddha statue of about 143 CE.^[2]

The inscription at the base of the statue is: