The Bamiyan region had been referred to in early Buddhist Prakrit ... to the sculpted work of the Ashoka Pillars and to the commencement of the Mauryan art with Buddha image carved. In the earliest ...

The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which shook the world in March 2001. on this subject: Cultural Landscape and Archaeological ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

Standing stoically in the heart of the Bamiyan Valley, some 160 kilometers North-West of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Buddha statues had ... comprises a team of art historians and scientists and ...