The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha ... artists who crossed the Kabul valley which linked the Southern branch of the Great Northern Highway ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

adding that seeing the remains of Buddha statues in Bamiyan and Band-e-Amir park were highlights. Her most memorable ...

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious ... The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing ...