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 ...

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.