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Some good tour of the areas around the famous Buddhas in Bamyan Afghanistan. Showing destruction of these historic treasures.

Historic Background on the famous Bamyan Buddhas in Afghanistan

The great Buddha statue in the heart of Bamyan valley was not only the place of worships for Billions of Buddha followers it was the Hazaras identity which proved that they are the ancient inhabitants of this land whose forefathers carved this titanic Buddha Statue in the heart of mountain 2500 years ago.

REAL STORY: What justified the destruction of these Buddha's were the fact that some of the museums were trying to spend millions on these Buddha restoration, while the Afghan people were dying off hunger and Sanctions.

New Delhi: The famed Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan are now set to rise from rubble after they were blown up by the Talibanis in 2003. Now, even as the Taliban seeks to re-establish its presence in Afghanistan, Afghan authorities are trying to figure out a way to put the Buddhas back together again. Six-years-ago Afghanistan was dominated by Talibanis who left no stoned unturned in obliterating its artistic beauty. The two tallest standing Buddhas in the world—silent sentinels over the ...

March 2001 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan Among the tallest standing Buddhas in the world, the Bamiyan, Afghanistan Buddhas stood 53 meters (175 feet) and 34.5 meters tall of unlimited cost. The statues were carved into the sides of the mountains bordering the central province of Bamiyan during the second and third centuries AD. For centuries they gazed benevolently from their mountain homes as wars raged across the Afghan plains in central Bamiyan province, about 144 km west of Kabul. But the two ...

(thefullmonte.com) After months working in Kabul Afghanistan we-- two young American filmmakers-- traveled into the hills for a Vacation. In the dramatic beauty of the landscape, we found an open, generous and humerous people. Our short video captures a simple story never told in the news headlines. Filmmakers: Aaron Rockett and John Monte

The 55m Buddha been destroyed by Taliban

Taliban destroying the Buddha idols in Afghanistan. These powerless idols are currently being worshipped by many people around the world. The Taliban destroyed these idols, thus doing a obligation in the religion of Islam, which is the destruction of all idols which are being worshipped a side of Allah (swt). It is obligatory to reject the Taghut and to destroy everything that is being worshipped other than Allah (swt) in Islam. Allah (swt) said in the Qur´an, Surah 2:256 There is no ...

Nineteen-year-old Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf (daughter of Mohsen and younger sister of Samira) presented "Buda az sharm foru rikht") in the section Generation Kplus (for children of 11 years and older) at the Berlinale 2008. Apart from winning the principal prize of that section, the film also received the 23rd Film Peace Prize, awarded by the IPPNW. It tells the story of 5-year-old Bakhtay who lives in the Afghan town of Bamiyan where in 2001 the Taliban blew up the famous Buddha ...

Anybody who has been in Afghanistan and seen this beautiful and wonderful country will never forget the beauty and the mystery surrounding this part of the world were the Initiates of the Fourth Race Atlanteans built the fantastic Bamian statues 200 kilometers northwest of the City of Kabul. The people of Afghanistan are a beautiful and freedom loving mountain people, unfortunately today they live under the influence of ultra political forces. I personally have been in Kabul in 1977 and from ...

LeShan DaFo (Happy Mountain Big Buddha) is located in central China's Sichuan province. This seventy-one meter tall Buddha statue was carved into a cliff face about 1300 years ago. It gained the title of "World's Largest Buddha" after the Taliban government destroyed the cliff-carved Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

A poetic take on the destruction of the Great Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban militia near Bamiyan, in 2001. Truly an international collaboration, with stills by Swiss Christian Frei from his documentary film; reading and poem by New Zealander Stephen Oliver; music by Australian Matt Ottley; film by David P Reiter. ... Taliban "Great Buddha" Afghanistan religion Buddhism "war on terror" "Christian Frei" "Stephen Oliver" "Matt Ottley" "David Reiter" ...

12/16/2008. People of Bamya & Buddhas of Bamyan remains also shown ... Bamya Bamyan Buddha Hazara Afghanistan hindu kush Shia Shiite Buddhist

2001 the Taliban swept through Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. Their target was the colossal stone Buddha statues which had stood for over 1500 years. The world watched powerless as one of its true wonders was lost. In Rebuilding Bamiyan Al Jazeera's Nadene Ghouri travels to Bamiyan to explore the restoration work being done on the site, and to talk to those planning to rebuild the statues. ... valley bamiyan afghanistan rebuilding taliban stone statues buddha buddhas restore rebuild aljazeera ...

Modern farang Mu Sul Portugal - www.farang-alliance.org Buddha Eden Training (Sword & empty Hand) - FMS Caldas da Rainha-Portugal The Best Family in the World, MAster Pinto, Instructor Tiago Soares and some of his students, visited the Buddha Eden in Bombarral-Portugal, Farm of Louridos with hundreds of statues. This Garden was conceived by Comendador Joe Berardo in response for the destruction in 2001 of the great Bamyan Buddhas of Afghanistan by the Taleban government. He embarked on the ...

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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007) Director: Hana Makhmalbaf The beauty and grief of present-day Afghanistan receives epic, poetic treatment from Hana Makhmalbaf, the youngest member of master director Mohsen Makhmalbafs remarkable family. Set in Bamian, the actual town where the Talibans destruction of cultural treasures sickened the world, Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is an exotic and frightening journey into the minds of the children who live in that desolate area and children affected ...

According to the world press, this Buddha was destroyed by the Taliban.

One of the giant Buddhas which were later destroyed by the Taliban. Bamiyan. 1977

One of the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, since destroyed by the Taliban. This was taken in 1977. buddah-standing-workers-72

These were the biggest carvings of the Buddha on earth until the Taliban blew them to pieces with tanks in 1999. For an idea of scale, there are some men in hardhats at the bottom.

Its not there any more.. Taliban have destroyed this site.. !

Its not there any more.. Taliban have destroyed this site.. !

Defaced and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, the larger of the two Buddha's in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, has stood tall for some 1500 years. Picture here in the summer of 2005.

The Buddhas of Bamyan In the valley of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan stood for almost two millennia the world's tallest standing statues of Buddha. They were destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.

All the remains of the larger Buddha in Afghanistan. Always thought we invaded about a year too late. Still one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, but its so sad to see the hole.