Buddhas of Bamiyan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780674503793
Subjects: Gautama buddha; Sculpture, middle east; Religion and culture; Bamiyan region; Afghanistan, social life and customs
Description: For 1,400 years, two colossal Buddhas overlooked the Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. The Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan.