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The exchange and integration of human civilisations is the norm in the development of civilisations, and a great civilisation is bound to be a state of openness and integration, which is particularly evident in the development of Buddhist art. In the first century A.D., in the Gandhara region of northwestern India (present-day northeastern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan), a form of worship of the image of the Buddha appeared. During the reign of the Kushan Empire (1st-3rd centuries A.D.), Buddhist statues reached their peak, and during this period in the Hatta region Buddhist statues generally showed Hellenistic artistic characteristics. The Buddha himself is depicted with a deep gaze, slightly open eyes, a straight nose, and Greek-style wavy hair combed back in a chignon with a solemn expression. Many mathematicians believe that the artistic image of Buddha originated from the style of Apollo's beautiful man in ancient Greece. Through the analysis of artistic phenomenology, the author believes that this stems from the fact that the expression of Buddha's intention in Mahayana Buddhism and Apollo's intention in Greek mythology have something in common, which is mainly reflected in the fact that the two share some of the same spiritual inner manifestations in myths and religions, and that the image of the Buddha completed the transmutation from Apollo's image through the process of peeling off, borrowing, and appropriating in the Gandharan region in the post-Hellenistic era.