KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas ... two "anti-Islamic" giant stone statues be destroyed, despite pleas from around the world to save them. An Afghan woman ...

Evidently, Buddhism had been the vibrant force behind Sri Lanka’s interaction with ... sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in Afghanistan which were ...

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 ...