Mathura art is usually contasted with art that is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, and is a cultural syncretism between buddhism and what?
Greco-Buddhist art Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century AD. Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism and sensuous description of Hellenistic art and the first representations of the Buddha in human form, which have helped define the artistic (and particularly, sculptural) canon for Buddhist art throughout the Asian continent up to the present. It is also a strong example of cultural syncretism between eastern and western traditions.
Samvriti In Buddhist context, saṁvṛiti or saṁvṛiti-satya (Sanskrit) refers to the conventional ("saṁvṛiti"), as opposed to absolute, truth or reality ("satya"). Knowledge is considered as split into three levels: The first being the "illusory" (called "samvriti", "parikalpita" or "pratibhasika" according to different schools of thought), considered false compared to the empirical ("samvriti", "paratantra" or "vyavaharika"), in turn trumped by the transcendental ("paramartha" or "paramarthika"). "Compare: paramartha"