• firdoos Ahmad Ganie
• Manzoor ul Islam

Kashmir the name given to the north most territory of India is a rich center of learning from the ancient times. The land was a great seat of learning for Buddhists shavite and vaishnavite scholars. The people who ever had visited Kashmir were openhandedly patronized by the kings and queens of the land, the rulers had build Agraharams for housing pundits and scholars. A mutt or monastery for students to study provides space for artists. In fact scholars came from different parts of the world in order to gain knowledge from ancient teachers and scholars. The valley has developed its cultural, economic and political links with world civilizations from early times.in this process of interaction the land of Kashmir developed a huge extent and also shapes its social menniu on the new line. The second period of Kashmir history belongs to Buddhism. Many monks and monasteries here, they practice both Mahayana and Hinayana located at the intersection of empires, the nexus of cultures, and the confluences of religious traditions, Kashmir was a place where established religious and artistic ideas circulated and intermingled , giving forth new ideas that were thus sent out into the world. The art of Kashmir, both Buddhist and Hindu, is evidence of these interactions and inventions,

Yuchi-chi, Gobi, Kushan, archeology, doctrine, Nilmatapurna, Buddhism

"KASHMIR THE RISING LAND OF BUDDHISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no.637-640, June-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706115.pdf

"KASHMIR THE RISING LAND OF BUDDHISM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no. pp637-640, June-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706115.pdf