The Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan
Posted by Admin on May 15, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
About 100 miles west of Kabul Afghanistan is a broad valley flanked by high clips. From the first to the 6th century, the world’s largest statues have the standing Buddha was carved into the face of these clips. And for fifteen hundred years, the Buddha’s watched over this portion of the busy trade routes between India in China. As the centuries past the statue is also survived numerous wars over the control of Afghanistan. In the late nineteen nineties the peacefulness a balmy on Valley was broken once again, as the Taliban battled rival factions in the Afghan civil war. Although, the Buddha’s were considered idols according to the Taliban. Strict interpretation of Islam, the official stance up the ante for the first few years, was for their preservation as a part of Afghan history. And as a source of income from foreign tourists.
In March 2001, that policy change. And the Taliban order the volume Buddha destroy. This Taliban video shows young men climbed to the top of the larger Buddha, they are among the last to touch the agent figures as they set the explosives. As a group a Taliban leaders watch from a nearby hillside the statues are reduced to rubble, and the Dead Nation fills the valley with a cloud of dust. All that remains today at the balmy on Buddha’s is our making niches in the mountainside with an outline of where the towering figures once stood.
Last year, after the statues were destroyed, the Taliban themselves were forced out of power during America’s war against terrorism. Now the valley’s peaceful once again. And the people who live there trying to recover from decades of war. But in Western Europe researchers are exploring ways to rebuild the giant statues. And a foundation is being established to help fund the project. Through computer imaging and three-dimensional model scientists and historians are determining the precise materials. And the best construction method they will need to accurately replace the Buddha’s in the balmy on Valley.