A video recorded recently in Afghanistan shows Taliban gunmen using the remnants of the Bamiyan Buddhas for target practice. The video is raising serious concerns about a pledge by the Taliban ...
March 11 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Bamiyan’s sixth-century Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. According to experts, encroaching construction, negligence, and looting are ...
This month the two sixth-century Buddhas of Bamiyan demolished in Afghanistan were temporarily returned to their towering places in the Bamiyan cliffs through 3D projection. A 3D projection of one of ...
Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...
According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...
Civil unrest Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Other Threats: Risk of imminent collapse of the Giant Buddha niches; Irreversible deterioration of the mural paintings; Anti-personnel ...
Ancient Buddhas at Bamiyan were destroyed by the Taliban -- but now their images are being reconstructed using 3-D modeling. This image shows the texture mapping of a 3-D model of the Great Buddha of ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A 4:34 minute SILENT film clip of the Bamiyan statues from "Adventure in Afghanistan" from Hal, Halla and David Linker's television travelogue ...
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