4 The empty space where a Buddha statue once stood in Bamiyan as it appeared in February 2021. 5 A photo of the archaeological site at Bamiyan, which was taken in May 1968 during an official visit ...

For the Buddhas of Bamiyan, there is no scarcity of donors. Japan, China and other countries with large Buddhist populations have offered their help, but this raises thorny religious issues.

When the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan destroyed two 1,600-year-old Buddha statues lining Bamiyan Valley's soaring cliffs, the world shook with shock at the demise of such huge ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban systematically destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan—two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1500 years. Now, extensive studies of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 62-foot Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central ... were in caves near the two destroyed giant statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, ...

Spent artillery shells, lined up like sentries, stood at the base of the mountain alcove where the tallest statue once soared 170 feet. The Buddha's outline and piles of rubble were all that remained.

Afghans have gathered at what was once the site of the Bamiyan Buddhas to mark 19 years since they were blown up by Taliban militants. Those who gathered for the annual event called for cultural ...

I read with great sadness the Taliban's claim that they have already destroyed most of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and their boast that whatever remained would soon be gone.

All things change; nothing is permanent," runs the old Buddhist saw, in no case more pertinent than Afghanistan's remote Bamiyan valley, whose two giant stone statues were blown to smithereens by ...