The story of the Kanishka’s Casket which was said to contain the Bone Relics of the Buddha himself. The Role Kanishka played in the spread of Buddhism. And how it was discovered in the early 1900s and how its “lost” again.
First Lord Shiva on an Indic Coin
The Kushanas issued several other different versions of the Coins featuring Lord Shiva as well including him holding a damru and a Trident. And with Nandi Bull in the background. The whole irony of the whole situation is the fact that the first coin featuring the most revered Hindu God was coined in Bagram in Afghanistan (more Central Asian than Indic) on the foothills of the Hindu Kush and by an Emperor whose origin was Central Asian and not Indic.
Harwan Buddhist Monastery Ruins
Exploring the remains of the Harwan Buddhist Monastery in Kashmir where the 4 th Buddhist Council was supposed to have been held in the First Century. It was Emperor Kanishka of the Kushan under whose aegis the Council took place and it was after this Council that hundreds of Buddhist Monks went to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan and Tibet to propagate Mahayana Buddhism.