Bamiyan buddha

The Bamiyan Buddhas survived nearly 1,500 years in Afghanistan until the Taliban entered the region and blew up the treasured figures in 2001.

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The Bamiyan Buddha of 54 m high in 1995..These magnificent colossal statues, created during the 3rdâ4th centuries A.D., attracted pilgrims for centuries, far beyond the time when Buddhism languished in India following the disastrous visitation of the Hephthalite Huns in the 5th century, the subsequent resurgence of Hinduism, and the arrival of iconoclastic Islam in the 7th century..The entire niche was once covered with paintings dating from i he late 5th to the early 7th centuries.

Obscurity fell upon the valley of shining light Imprinted in our collective memory, the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban in 2001 still needs explanation. From Alexander the Great, this is the story of the “valley of shining light” -Bamiyan-, and the numerous efforts to prevent the destruction of the Buddhas. Photo Unesco. #bamiyan #buddha #afghanistan #statue #unesco #culturalheritage #worldheritage #heritage #worldmonuments #arthistory #worldmonumentsfund #history…

On the cliff face of a sandstone mountain, visible from the ancient Silk Road near the town of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, are two massive voids...

The golden icons survived Genghis Khan, but not, sadly, the Taliban.

These Buddhas had been defaced by many previous groups of the religiously intolerant in the centuries leading up to this one. Note the scaffolding.

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When I was in India in the 1970s I thought of going to Afghanistan specifically to see the great Buddhas of Bamiyan. I had the time, the money and the interest. As it happens, I kept putting this trip off and in the end never got around to it. If the various schemes for resurrecting the Buddhas ever comes to pass; constructing copies, projecting some sort of hologram onto the niches where they once stood, etc. I probably won’t go. Looking at a reproduction of an original has always seemed to…