The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ancient Rajarata. The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan ...

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala hillside ... Such were the beginnings of this mammoth project – the building of a 67.5 foot granite statue which has now ...

Mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the Buddha statues in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, reports from Kabul said. The destruction has drawn heated reactions from Arab and Muslim ...

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious ... to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which ...