Bamiyan BuddhaMarch 2001 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan
Among the tallest standing Buddhas in the world, the Bamiyan, Afghanistan Buddhas stood 53 meters (175 feet) and 34.5 meters tall. The statues were carved into the sides of the mountains bordering the central province of Bamiyan during the second and third centuries AD. For centuries they gazed benevolently from their mountain homes as wars raged across the Afghan plains in central Bamiyan province, about 144 km west of Kabul. But the two massive Buddha statues have become casualties, destroyed by command of the Afghan Taleban in early March 2001.
Bamiyan Buddha
ReplyDeleteThere are two Buddha statues, which are 2000 year old, were ravaged in 2001 taliban incidence in Bamiyan. It’s approximately 3 to 4 thousand meter form Ghazni with road filled with memories of ice-covered mountains, followed by gravelly aridness, gorges, further rock-strewn ledges, rocks in multicoloured forms and hues.
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