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 ...

Standing stoically in the heart of the Bamiyan Valley ... A 1:10 scale model of the Buddha, approximately 6 meters (20 feet) high, will be built at the Afghanistan Institute & Museum in Switzerland.