Alexander comes east In addition to being an important cultural center in ancient India, the Gandhara region of northwest India (straddling the modern-day border between Pakistan and Afghanistan), had also been a part of the Greek empire for a time, and was deeply influenced by Hellenic culture. In Buddhist sculpture from Gandhara, the figures have the deeply set eyes, aquiline noses, and curly hair so typical of Greek statues.
位於印度西北的犍陀羅（巴基斯坦和阿富汗交界），不僅是古印度的文化中心，由於曾經被希臘所征服統治，深受希臘羅馬文化影響，因此犍陀羅的佛像是深目、高鼻、捲髮的希臘風格。