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Peshawar (Puruṣapura)

Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of modern Pakistan, was known in antiquity as Puruṣapura, a capital of the Gandhāra region and of the Kushan empire. According to the Tibetan historian Tāranātha and other accounts, the Yogācāra masters and half-brothers Asaṅga and Vasubandhu were born there in the early centuries CE.

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