The ancient sandstone carvings, once the world’s tallest Buddhas, were annihilated in an ... Speaking against the backdrop of Bamiyan’s majestic sandstone cliffs, once home to the giant statues, Mr ...

KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban ... their leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered that the two "anti-Islamic" giant stone statues be ...

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared ...

The photo is of Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, which became the largest Buddha in the world after the Taliban bombed the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan in 2001. Naturally, this being a ...

But having been attracted to the new Buddhist doctrine while they were in NW India, they, after their shift, sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in ...

A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...

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.

And obviously, the statue of the Buddha in this temple,'' he said. ''Anybody who comes to that temple, feels so calm and collected once they see that big Buddha. There's no magic to it.