One sunny mormning in the fall of 1954 my colleague at Yale, Professor Norman H. Pearson, asked me to have a look at a collection of photographs from Gandharan sculptures. I saw then the first batch of the excellent photographs taken by Mr. Lyons in the museums of Pakistan. When I expressed the wish that these valuable documents might be pablished, I was soon asked to write an Introduction to them. To make long story short, Mr. Lyons went back to Pakistan, took another batch of pictures, at the sarme time undertaking the arduous task of measuring and noting down inventory numbers of all the objects photographed. It was agreed that besides the Introduction a catalogue should likewise be made, a work which was to take much more of my time than I had expected, so that there was less time left over for the more challenging work of the Introduction. Whatever be the deficiencies in one or the other, the photographs reproduced should make the study of Gandharan art casier for future students in this fascinating field.

1954年秋天一个阳光明媚的早晨，我在耶鲁大学的同事诺曼·h·皮尔森(Norman H. Pearson)教授让我看一看犍陀罗雕塑的摄影集。当时，我在巴基斯坦的博物馆里看到了莱昂斯先生拍摄的第一批优秀照片，当我表示希望这些有价值的文件可以被保存时，我很快就被要求写一篇介绍的文章。长话短说，莱昂斯先生回到了巴基斯坦，又拍了一批照片。他承担着测量和记录所有被拍摄物体的库存编号的艰巨任务。大家一致同意，除了引言之外，还应该制作一个目录，这将比我预期的花费更多的时间，所以剩下的时间就更少了，可以做更具挑战性的引言工作。无论其中一个或另一个的缺陷是什么，影像照片应该为犍陀罗艺术的研究为未来的学生在这个迷人的领域继续学习。

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