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	Bamian - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As seen from the rock of Ghulgulah, Bamian, with its ruined towers, its colossi, its innumerable grottos, and with the singular red colour of its barren soil, presents an impressive aspect of desolation and mystery.
		There appears to be no further record of Bamian as a city; but the character of ruins at Ghulgulah agrees with traditions on the spot in indicating that the city must have been rebuilt after the time of the Mongols and again perished.
		In 1840, during the British occupation of Kabul, Bamian was the scene of an action in which Colonel William H. Dennie with a small force routed Dost Mahommed Khan, accompanied by a number of Uzbeg chiefs.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bamian (844 words)

	Bamian
		It lies northwest of Kabul, the nation's capital, in the Bamian valley at an elevation of 2,590 meters.
		Bamian is first mentioned in 5th Century A.D. Chinese sources and was visited by the Chinese travelers Fa-hsien around 400 A.D. and Hsüan-tsang in 630 A.D.; it was by that time a centre of commerce and of the Buddhist religion.
		In 1840 Bamian was the scene of fighting in the First Anglo-Afghan War.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/bamian.html (284 words)

	IRAN-BACKED AFGHAN FORCES OF VAHDAT CAPTURE BAMIAN
		Bamian is a stronghold of Afghanistan's minority Shi'a Muslim community and falls on the main highway linking the capital, Kabul, to Mazar Sharif in the north.
		The loss of Bamian is the biggest setback the Taleban has faced in months, analysts said, adding that the fall of Bamian could herald an equilibrium between the forces in presence.
		They explained that the capture of Bamian is important for the forces opposed to Taleban as it allows them to control the main logistic Kabul-Mazar Sharif road; menace Taleban positions in neighbouring Samangan and Takhar provinces and reorganise their forces.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2001/feb_2001/bamian_recaptured_15201.htm (680 words)

	Focus on Hazara returnees to Bamian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other families also said they were happy to be back in Bamian, but many said they were forced to live in these caves and, given a choice, they would prefer to move.
		In the village of Kazan, some 12 km from Bamian, and home to some 5,000 families, Qorban, aged 35, told IRIN that his father had been killed by the Taliban, who had then burned his house to the ground.
		He added that conditions across Bamian were very basic and that up to 80 percent of houses had been partially destroyed.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=21187 (1470 words)

	Bamian: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		While the sea...preferred the latter, for the ruins of Bamian still fill the pass, while the remains...workings are, indeed, said to exist near Bamian, but the cost of transporting ore from...
		The Buddhas of Bamian were by all accounts a wondrous sight...valleys of Afghanistan, the Buddhas of Bamian stood as testaments to this ancient time...
		Near Bamian, not far from the kingly splendors of Kabul, dung was the stuff of life, used for building, heating, and smoking.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/bamian.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1295 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Medical Assistance Projects Target Bamian Province
		New Zealand Army Lance Cpl. Kelly Roberts, Bamian Provincial Reconstruction Team, distributes medication to a woman at the Ruye Sang village June 14.
		BAMIAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan, July 13, 2004 — Medical assistance and training are just two of the ways the Coalition is assisting in the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
		The Bamian medical assistance project targeted remote villages just outside a small forward operating base in the Kahmard Valley region.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/jul2004/a071304f.html (750 words)

	Bamian - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was long a major caravan center on the route across the Hindu Kush between India and central Asia.
		The Bamian valley is lined with cave dwellings cut out of the cliffs by Buddhist monks.
		Particularly interesting were two great figures (one 175 ft/53 m high, the other 120 ft/37 m) carved from rock and finished in fine plaster.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bamian.html (342 words)

	The Talibans and the Hazaras
		The threat to the Bamian Buddhas is symbolic of the one hanging over much of the population of central Afghanistan.
		Although the early popular risings had often targeted primary schools for their association with the communists, the expansion of access to education was an important part of the autonomy project.
		In contrast to the Taliban areas, there was a significant expansion of female education under the Wahadat, helped in part by the recruitment of teachers from the refugees returning from Iran and from the educated Hazaras displaced from Kabul.
	www.himalmag.com /98Oct/taliban.htm (2349 words)

	A Lament for Bamian, Afghanistan (also known as Bamiyan)
		In happier days, the boys of Bamian were delighted to pose for a photograph and a small reward.
		Beyond Bamian is a high semi-desert plateau, and the forbidding mountains of the Hindu Kush ('death to the Hindus'), snowy even in summer.
		In a high valley northwest of Bamian is an astonishing spectacle, something that seems miraculous in the dry wilderness: a chain of brilliant blue and green lakes.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~iany/photos/photos.htm (962 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Awakening a Sleeping Buddha
		The leader of the dig, Zemaryalai Tarzi, is optimistic that important discoveries lie under the soil, and he will return to Bamian this summer to continue the excavation.
		They also believe Bamian was the site of some of the first statues to ever show the face of Buddha, who had previously been represented as a footprint or an umbrella.
		Bamian was believed to be the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,771,0,0,1,0 (1039 words)

	Bamian
		When Bamian was at the hands of Wahdat, they built the only university in the country that was not established by former governments.
		It remains to be seen how the destruction of the Bamian Buddhas may have related to the suicide bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, but some speculate that one inspired the other.
		The Bamian province was initially chosen as a PRT site because Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and the leadership of the coalition wanted specifically to support the Hazara people who are a populace of the central highlands region of Afghanistan.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/bamian.htm (967 words)

	Bamian Statues and Theosophy
		But who cut the Bamian, still more colossal, statues, the tallest and the most gigantic in the whole world, for Bartholdi's ”Statue of Liberty” (now at New York) is a dwarf when compared with the largest of the five images.
		Bamian is a small, miserable, half-ruined town in Central Asia, half-way between Cabul and Balkh, at the foot of Kobhibaba, a huge mountain of the Paropamisian (or Hindu-Kush) chain, some 8,500 feet above the level of the sea.
		In days of old, Bamian was a portion of the ancient city of Djooljool, ruined and destroyed to the last stone by Tchengis-Khan in the XIII th century.
	www.teosofiskakompaniet.net /BamianTeosofiHPB2001.htm (3883 words)

	"The Bamian Statues: Their Mysterious Origin" by H. P. Blavatsky
		Bamian is a small, miserable, half-ruined town in Central Asia, half-way between Kabul and Balkh, at the foot of Kobhibaba, a huge mountain of the Paropamisian (or Hindu-Kush) chain, some 8,500 feet above the level of the sea.
		In days of old, Bamian was a portion of the ancient city of Gholgola, ruined and destroyed to the last stone by Genghis Khan in the XIIIth century.
		When it is maintained that no larger statues exist on the whole globe, the fact is easily proven on the evidence of all the travellers who have examined them and taken their measurements.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/50-00-1/as-hpb.htm (1483 words)

	Bamian, Afghanistan @AryanaSite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its early history is obscure, but Bamian flourished as a fortress town from the 9th to the 12th centuries AD under the Ghurid dynasty.
		For centuries Bamian was a major caravan stopover on the route between central Asia and India.
		There are two great Buddha figures, the most famous of which is a semi-detached statue called the Great Buddha of Bamian, which is 55 m (180 ft) in height and was first described in 630 AD by the Chinese traveller Xuanzang.
	www.aryanasite.com /afghanistan/cities/bamian.htm (189 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Bamian Dining Facility Employs Afghan Women
		BAMIAN, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2003 - A U.S. Army provincial reconstruction team, or PRT, sprinkled a dash of Western ideas over a culture flavored with iron-clad traditions when it hired two Afghan women to help at the PRT dining facility here.
		The Bamian PRT civil affairs team first brought the up idea to hire Sakina Esmaelie and Aamana Haidari, a mother-and- daughter team, to show the local people "that women can work outside the home in professional capacities," said Lt. Col.
		Recently, the Bamian PRT also hired Haidari's husband so "that it was more of a family thing, and also to continue to counteract the perception that we're using them for (reasons) other than cooking," said Schnur.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030911-afps05.htm (576 words)

	CNN - Afghan conflict threatens giant Buddhas - December 6, 1997
		BAMIAN, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The armed conflict between the Islamic Taliban militia and its opponents has not only taken a murderous toll on the Afghan people but is raising concerns about some of the country's archeological treasures -- particularly a pair of famous Buddha statues in the Bamian valley of central Afghanistan.
		The sandstone statues are believed to date back to the third century and with a height of 55 meters (182 feet) and 38 meters (125 feet) respectively, the two Buddhas are believed to be among the tallest in the world.
		Bamian is a staging ground for the anti-Taliban alliance, and Taliban jets have dropped bombs perilously close to the statues.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/9712/06/afghan.buddha (444 words)

	Bamian
		While in Bamian, most of these pilgrims lived with the priests in their caves or in special residences in the small town.
		Most of the artifacts of Bamian were also plundered by the armies of Changaze (Ghenghis) Khan or the overly zealous Muslim Afghan rulers of later years.
		Above and beyond was the dome of the blue sky of Bamian vaulting the entire panorama from horizon to horizon.
	users.tns.net /~mroashan/MKRBook/Chapters/Ch7.htm (5415 words)

	BAMIAN - Online Information article about BAMIAN
		As seen from the rock of Ghulgulah, Bamian, with its ruined towers, its colossi, its innumerable grottos, and with the singular red See also:
		That the idols of Bamian, about which so many conjectures have been uttered, were Buddhist figures, is ascertained from the narrative of the See also:
		Dennie with a small force routed Dost Mahommed Khan, accompanied by a number of Uzbeg chiefs.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BAMIAN.html (1256 words)

	Iran modernizes Afghanistan's 'Bamian' airport
		He added that the equipment are useful in facilitating the landing of airplanes in Bamian.
		Before the Bamian airport could not relay weather information to pilots intending to land at the airport.
		Bamian has the highest altitude among Afghan cities and was the cite of giant Buddha statues attracting the most number of tourists in the country.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/jul/1091.html (373 words)

	Ghorids of Bamiyan
		Ghor is a mountainous region [Now known as Hazarajat and populated by the Hazara tribe who, are of Turcko-Mongoloid stock, profess the Shi'a faith and were colonized in that area by Chengiz's successors] lying west-southwest of Kabul and West-Northwest of Ghazni.
		Under the present political divisions the region of Ghor is divided into the provinces of Ghowr [capital Chaghcharan], Bamian [capital Bamian], and some areas of Paravan [capital Charikar], and other provinces to the North and West including Baghlan, Balkh, Tukhar, Samangan and Sar-e-pol.
		Inspite of the fact that Bamian is neither situated on any important caravan route nor it was (or is) rich in any kind of industrial or agricultural produce, the presence of Silver and Gold coins for such a small territory is justified by three facts:
	www.islamiccoinsgroup.50g.com /assikka22/ghorids.htm (1378 words)

	RELEASE 030916-01 / Bamian civil affairs team delivers to future of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BAMIAN, Afghanistan (USASOC News Service, Sep. 16, 2003) — The rugged terrain of Bamian Province’s mountain passes and valleys doesn’t hamper the Bamian Provincial Reconstruction Team's civil affairs soldiers’ determination to reach their destinations.
		The “gifts” are presented to the schools by the CA team through the hands of the Afghan government “so our efforts are working hand in hand to show the people of the schools that both governments are working together; both governments have an interest in the education of the people,” said Castillo.
		Right now the U.S. team is in the process of handing the Bamian PRT mission to a team of New Zealand forces, but the five-person U.S. civil affairs team will stay and continue their missions, said Castillo.
	news.soc.mil /releases/03SEP/030916-01.htm (485 words)

	bamyanuniv
		- The foundation of Bamian University was laid in 1992 during the Government of Sibghatullah Mujaddadi.
		In March 2004, the Bamian University was reopened.
		The staff of Bamian University is 34 females and 31 males.
	www.hazara.net /news/bamyanuniv/bamyanuniv.html (210 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Bamian Army Volunteer Center Opens in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bamian, Afghanistan, home to many members of the Hazara tribe.
		BAMIAN, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2004 — In the shadow of what were once towering Buddha statues lies the city of Bamian, home to the newest Afghan National Army volunteer center.
		The young men of Bamian now have their own recruiting center, which opened on Oct. 12, 2004.
	www.defendamerica.gov /articles/oct2004/a101904f.html (503 words)

	Bamian (provincia) - Wikipedia
		Bamian è una provincia dell'Afghanistan di 356.000 abitanti, che ha come capoluogo Bamian.
		Confina con le province di Sar-e Pol a nord-ovest, di Samangan a nord, di Baghlan a nord-est, di Parvan a est, di Vardak a sud-est, di Ghazni a sud, di Daikondi a sud-ovest e di Ghowr a ovest.
		Ultima modifica per la pagina: 15:10, 2 lug 2006.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bamian_%28provincia%29 (91 words)

	Destruction of the Bamian Buddhas
		There has been much attention, especially among Buddhists worldwide, to the recent destruction of two statues of Buddha in Afghanistan.
		These statues were known as the Bamian Buddhas.
		Bamian refers to the province where they were located.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/buddhism/64204 (527 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Profile Article
		BAMIAN, Afghanistan —; Mohammad, who claimed to be 30 years old, but looked to be about 60, and has seven children, said the rice will last maybe two weeks.
		Phil Edwards, who works with the deployment support team at Bagram is also the liaison for KBI, flew to Bamian in early December to confer with the civil affairs team to determine which area of Bamian required the most aid.
		KBI is also working with the civil affairs team in Bamian to get funding to drill 100 wells in the Bamian valley and to build a system to get water to the Hazara on the plateau.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/jan2003/a012803a.html (551 words)

	USNews.com: Mystery of the third Buddha
		It is a miracle hidden underground, the locals say, that will bring back the glory days when the Bamian valley bustled with Silk Road traders and reverent pilgrims.
		Its existence is also mentioned in the memoirs of a Chinese monk who traveled to Bamian in the seventh century, as well as in a Persian text from the 18th century.
		During his visit to Bamian, Khalili told him the story of the third Buddha, which Henrilevi repeated in a radio broadcast back in Kabul.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/020401/archive_020456.htm (598 words)

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