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The Buddhas of Bamyan were a set of giant stone carvings of a standing Buddha, in the area of the valley of Bamyan, Afghanistan, along the Silk Road. The two largest statues were nearly 180 and 120 feet tall, and carved out of alcoves in the sandstone cliff face, with details and paint added.

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  • The Buddhas of Bamyan were a set of giant stone carvings of a standing Buddha, in the area of the valley of Bamyan, Afghanistan, along the Silk Road. The two largest statues were nearly 180 and 120 feet tall, and carved out of alcoves in the sandstone cliff face, with details and paint added.
  • The Buddhas of Bamyan (Persian: بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km (143 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8,202 ft). Built in 507, the larger in 554, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art.
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  • Cultural
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  • Twenty seventh
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  • left on site
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  • Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamyan Valley
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  • i, ii, iii, iv, v.
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  • 2003(xsd:integer)
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  • One of the two buddhas of Bamyan in 1976
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  • Buddhist Indo-Greek
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  • 2003(xsd:integer)
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  • Bamyan, Afghanistan
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  • Buddhas of Bamyan
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  • The Buddhas of Bamyan were a set of giant stone carvings of a standing Buddha, in the area of the valley of Bamyan, Afghanistan, along the Silk Road. The two largest statues were nearly 180 and 120 feet tall, and carved out of alcoves in the sandstone cliff face, with details and paint added.
  • The Buddhas of Bamyan (Persian: بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km (143 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8,202 ft). Built in 507, the larger in 554, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which was worn away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colors. The lower parts of the statues' arms were constructed from the same mud-straw mix while supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. The rows of holes that can be seen in photographs were spaces that held wooden pegs which served to stabilize the outer stucco. They were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were "idols" (which are forbidden under Sharia law). International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban and of Islamism. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues.
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