The recently discovered three reliefs respectively with the themes, Nirvana and Maitreya, Prātihārya in Sravasti, and false gate of a stupa, have changed people’s previous understanding of Gandhara culture in several important aspects. It is confirmed that the image combination of Nirvana and Maitreya and their symbolic ideas of the decline and inheritance of dharma, as well as the yamaka-prātihārya and the mahāprātihārya which formed the prātihārya in Sravastifirst appeared in the central area of Gandhara, and the false gate of a stupa is a clever combination of Buddhist culture from central India and northwest India. Thus it reflects how it absorbed the cultural elementsfrom central India, Greece and Rome, and influenced the culture of Central Asia and the Western Regions.
