sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in Afghanistan which were destroyed by the Taliban a few years ago. These images Professor Perera states led to the ...
Vintage engraving showing the Buddha of Bamiyan. A 6th century monumental statue of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan.
AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were originally used by Buddhist monks for meditation and retreat. Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of ...
To legitimize its custody of the manuscript, found in an Afghan cave, the Museum of the Bible invoked the Universal ...
Gandhara — whose center was situated in present-day Peshawar in northwest Pakistan — encompassed Bamiyan in Afghanistan, Bactria, the Hindu Kush, and the Punjab region of northwest India. Buddhism ...
As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...
An Afghan woman walks past the ruins of the ancient Buddha statues that once stood in the city of Bamiyan. AFP With their country's economy crippled by war, many Afghans now want the 1,500-year-old ...
Buddhism arrived in the Bamiyan valley in the first or second century AD. This was as far west as the religion would advance, but it flourished here; archaeologists have discovered the remains of a ...
The area contains numerous Buddhist monastic ensembles and sanctuaries ... As of 2019 it was decided that the Silk Roads property at the Bamiyan World Heritage site will be rehabilitated within the ...
The destruction of the Buddhist images in Bamiyan seem to have been one of the main triggers. Buddhist monks demanded that the ancient Hantha Mosque in Taungoo be destroyed in retaliation for the ...
They’ve been taking dips in the turquoise lakes of Band-e-Amir National Park, exploring Buddhist art and ruins in Bamiyan and ...