Nava Vihara
Ruins · Afghanistan
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.730, 66.885
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Buddhist stupa or monastery near the ancient city of Balkh
History
The Naw Bahar were two Buddhist monasteries close to the ancient city of Balkh in northern Afghanistan. Historical accounts report it as flourishing as an important centre of Buddhism between the seventh and eleventh centuries CE. It may have been founded considerably earlier, perhaps in or after the reign of the Kushan emperor Kaniṣka, in the second century CE.