The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha ... Mendis in the “University of Ceylon, History of Ceylon” had commented on the affinities which could be ...

Mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the Buddha statues in Bamiyan ... giant Buddhas in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, "are only a transcription of history and have no negative impact ...

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, some 160 kilometers North-West of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Buddha statues had been witness to almost 2000 years of the modern world's history.

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by ... of this mammoth project – the building of a 67.5 foot granite statue which has now ...