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The History of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas
Known collectively as the Bamiyan Buddhas, the two monumental sculptures have amazed both Buddhist and non-Buddhist visitors for more than a 1,000 years. Like many of the world's great ancient monuments, little is known about who commissioned the Bamiyan Buddhas or the sculptors who carved them.
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The History of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas
History of the Bamiyan Buddhas Phecda109 / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain The smaller Buddha, pictured here, stood about 38 meters (125 feet) tall. It was carved from the mountainside around 550 CE, according to radiocarbon dating.
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The Death of the Buddhas of Bamiyan April 18, 2012 Pierre Centlivres Originally posted December 2009 The 2001 destruction of the two giant Buddhas in Bamiyan is, by far, the most spectacular attack against the historical and cultural heritage of Afghanistan committed during the country's recent period of turmoil.
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Built in the 6th century, the Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental size statues, standing at 115 and 174 feet tall, carved into the sandstone cliffs of the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan.
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The Bamiyan Buddha statues, hewn from sandstone cliffs, are said to have dated back to the 5th century AD, and were once the tallest standing Buddhas in the world. In their Roman draperies and with two different mudras, the statues were great examples of a confluence of Gupta, Sassanian and Hellenistic artistic styles.
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The Bamiyan Buddhas were situated in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the central highlands of Afghanistan. They were the largest standing Buddhas in the world (Grun et al. 2004).The two main statues were built in 554 CE and 507 CE (Janowski 2011: 47) and were known in modern times as the West Grand Buddha and the East Grand Buddha.They were, respectively, 53 m and 38 m high (Grun et al. 2004: 178).
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Bamiyan Buddhas Essay by Dr. Melody Rod-ari West Buddha surrounded by caves, c. 6th-7th c C.E., stone, stucco, paint, 175 feet high, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, destroyed 2001 (photo: © Afghanistan Embassy)
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Published March 23, 2021 • 7 min read Pascal Maitre's first, second, and third attempts to reach the colossal Buddha sculptures carved into the hillsides of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan Amusing
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan, 130 kilometres northwest of Kabul at an elevation of 2,500 metres . Carbon dating of the structural components of the Buddhas has determined that the smaller 38 m "Eastern Buddha" was built around 570 CE, and the larger 55 m "Western Buddha" was built.
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Carved into the Bamiyan Cliffs are the two niches of the giant Buddha statues (55m and 38m high) destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, and numerous caves forming a large ensemble of Buddhist monasteries, chapels and sanctuaries along the foothills of the valley dating from the 3rd to the 5th century C.E.
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The Buddha statues of Bamiyan, with their Roman draperies, belong to the Gandharan idiom, as do the numerous stupas scattered throughout the Afghan mountains, built to house relics of the Buddha and of later saints. Guldara, in a remote valley southeast of Kabul, is a noteworthy example with Hellenistic features; a more typical one is the stupa.
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan Llewelyn Morgan Paperback ISBN 9780674503793 Publication date: 05/04/2015 For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan.
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were a pair monumental statues carved into a cliff in Afghanistan's Hazarajat territory during the 6th century CE. The statues depicted Gautam Buddha and were prominent archeological sites that displayed the largest ever figures of Buddha.
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A deliberate act of destruction, motivated by an extremist ideology that aimed to destroy culture, identity and history, the loss of the Buddhas revealed how the destruction of heritage could be used as a weapon against local populations. It highlighted the close links between heritage safeguarding and the well-being of people and communities.