LAHORE: Most Venerable Arayawangso, a distinguished Buddhist monk from Thailand, along with a delegation from his country, visited the Lahore Museum on Thursday.

Tourism Secretary Ehsan Bhutta, Lahore Museum Director Ijaz Minhas and Director Archaeology Maqsood Ajmad received the delegation and took it for a visit to the Lahore Museum.

Mr Arayawangso was happy to see the Fasting Siddhartha and Gandhara art in the museum. He thanked the Punjab government and the Tourism Department and lauded the Archaeology Directorate and Lahore Museum for preservation and upkeep of valuable artifacts of Gandhara Civilisation.

Earlier, Mr Bhutta welcomed the guests. The delegation is visiting Lahore after spending a month at the Taxila Museum and 15 days at Buddhist areas (Swat, Peshawar and Takht Bahi) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2022