Modern historians have rejected Foucher's assumption that only Greek artists could produce sophisticated Buddhist sculptures, recognizing that local artists were certainly capable of creating such works, leaving the question of authorship (Greek vs. local vs. hybrid) contested and not definitively resolvable from available evidence

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basically fuche was arguing that only Greeks could produce such masterpieces this of course is not true local artists definitely could make these and so historians have since debated how to characterize this art

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