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	Kabul Caravan - Country Guide - Bamiyan
		Bamiyan is one of the most stable areas in Afghanistan, and security is generally good.
		Modern Bamiyan is a small town shadowed by the high limestone cliffs that form the boundary of the valley.
		The Taliban threatened to destroy the statues on capturing Bamiyan in 1997, but backed down in the face of international pressure, even going as far as declaring that the statues would be a major attraction for tourism when the fighting ceased.
	www.kabulcaravan.com /bamiyan.php (1197 words)

	Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters.
		Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Hsüan-tsang (Xuanzang) passed through the area around 630 AD and described Bamiyan as a flourishing Buddhist centre "with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks", and he noted that both Buddha figures were "decorated with gold and fine jewels" (Wriggins, 1995).
		In December 2004, Japanese researchers discovered that the wall paintings at Bamiyan were actually painted between the 5th and the 9th centuries, rather than the 6th to 8th centuries as previously believed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan (808 words)

	Bamiyan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bamiyan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		The two most prominent of these statues were standing Buddhas, measuring 55 and 37 meters high respectively, that were the largest examples of standing Buddha carvings in the world.
		Bamiyan is also known for its natural beauty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bamiyan_province (264 words)

	GIS@development May 2003: "Reconstructing the Great Buddha of Bamiyan" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Statues of Bamiyan were cut from the sandstone cliffs and they were covered with a mixture of mud and straw to model the expression of the face, the hands, the arms and the folds of the robe.
		The region of Bamiyan, ca 200 km North-West of Kabul, Afghanistan, was one of the major Buddhist centers from the 2nd century AD up to the time when Islam entered the area in the 9th century.
		In the Bamiyan valley, at ca 2500 meters of altitude, three big statues of Buddha and a series of caves were carved out from the sedimentary rock of the region.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /magazine/gisdev/2003/may/afgan.shtml (408 words)

	The Buddhas of Bamiyan - Location - IGP - ETH Zurich
		And for 500 years, the Bamiyan valley was one of the major Buddhist centers from the second century up to the time that Islam entered the valley in the ninth century.
		The caves were full of paintings and were carved in the same period as the statues; all the caves were stretched for about 1 km between the two gigantic Buddha images set in niches at the eastern and western ends of the cliffside.
		The region of Bamiyan, with the monasteries and the massive statues carved out of a sand rock, were the wonder of tourists, schools and connoisseurs of art for many centuries.
	www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch /research/bamiyan/buddha/location.html (556 words)

	Bamiyan
		Perhaps it is the compassion of the Bamiyan Buddhas that the Buddhas had sacrificed themselves for the sake of the world.
		But this is another topic, as far as the Bamiyan Buddhas are concerned let us as Buddhists not seek revenge or harden our hatred toward the Taleban, but instead foster compassion and understanding within ourself and others including the Taleban.
		At least in the case of the Bamiyan Buddhas no human life was lost unlike the situation in Tibet in which many have died, still live in fear and persecution and exile.
	www.aloha.net /~horaku/BamiyanBuddha.htm (2479 words)

	Bamiyan Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bamiyan province is one of the thirty-four (Click link for more info and facts about provinces of Afghanistan) provinces of Afghanistan.
		Bamiyan city is the largest city in the (Click link for more info and facts about Hazarajat) Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, and is the cultural capital of the (Click link for more info and facts about Hazara) Hazara ethnic group that predominates in the area.
		Bamiyan was the site of an early (One who follows the teachings of Buddha) Buddhist monastery.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bamiyan_province.htm (317 words)

	CPAmedia.com: Remembering Bamiyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dusty, poplar-lined lanes indicated the proximity of the oasis; to the south, illumined by wan sunlight, the battered remains of Shahr-i-Zohak, the "Red City" destroyed by Genghis Khan in the early 13th century, were clearly visible.
		Subsequently, in the 17th century, the Persian ruler Nadir Shah is said to have 'broken the legs' of the larger Buddha, though this is less clear--the right leg, slightly bent at the knee, remains intact, whilst the left appears to have sheared away naturally at the hip.
		The most obvious and impressive evidence of this past was to be found at Bamiyan, and it was the uncomfortable knowledge of this past, as much as the images themselves, that Taliban has now sought to obliterate with sledgehammers, rockets and high explosives.
	www.cpamedia.com /articles/20010416 (1469 words)

	Tales of Asia - Bamiyan
		This route to Bamiyan crosses over the Unai and Hakigak Passes (3300 and 3700 meters respectively) and like most trips of more than a few hours the landscape makes many subtle and even not so subtle changes along the way.
		We reached Bamiyan in the middle of the afternoon.
		Bamiyan is one main street lined with mostly single-story and two-story mud brick dwellings.
	www.talesofasia.com /afghanistan-bamiyan.htm (1754 words)

	The Little Magazine - Vinay Lal - After Bamiyan
		For all the wide acceptance of the twin ideas of ingrained Islamic fundamentalism and feudal or medieval rage as the two most constituent elements of the narrative which seeks to explain the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, it is heartening to note that some commentators have dismissed these gross reductionisms.
		Bamiyan’s two gigantic Buddhas, which were installed at least three centuries apart, the latter between 500 and 700 AD, were spared by Mahmud of Ghazni.
		If the idea of cosmopolitan pasts Bamiyan lay on the Silk Route, and here merged multiple ethnic, religious, and linguistic histories is now under assault, and yet ‘universal’ cities appear to be emblematic of late modernity, then the burden is to establish how modern cosmopolitanisms differ from pre-modern cosmopolitanisms.
	www.littlemag.com /mar-apr01/vinay2.html (862 words)

	Bamiyan - Wikipedia
		Die Hauptstadt ist Bamiyan, die größte Stadt in der Region Hazarajat und zugleich kulturelles Zentrum der Hazara in diesem Gebiet.
		Viele Buddhastatuen Buddha-Statuen von Bamiyan wurden in den Fels gemeißelt.
		Diese Felsstatuen befanden sich nahe der Stadt Bamiyan.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bamiyan (165 words)

	Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lying on the Silk Road linking China and India to the west, Bamiyan developed as a center of religion and philosophy and was the site of several Buddhist monasteries.
		Monks at the monasteries would reside as hermits in small caves carved into the side of cliffs along the Bamiyan valley.
		Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Hsüan-tsang (Xuanzang) passed through the area around 630 AD and described Bamiyan as a flourishing Buddhist centre "with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks", and he noted that both Buddha figures were "decorated with gold and fine jewels" (Wriggins, 1996).
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan (952 words)

	USATODAY.com - Women embrace new freedom in Bamiyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The enthusiasm with which Bamiyan women embrace politics reflects the relatively moderate brand of Islam that predominates in the remote province, best known for the 1,500-year-old giant Buddha statues the Taliban destroyed in March 2001.
		Bamiyan men are more likely to tolerate female candidates and voters than the men in Afghanistan's fundamentalist-dominated southern and eastern provinces.
		She is reduced to begging for cash from the central government and from aid agencies whose "bureaucracy is worse than our bureaucracy." She also must contend with "dozens" of provincial warlords such as the one holding up the irrigation project.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-14-bamiyan_x.htm (1414 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab \| www.afghanmagazine.com \| September 2004 \| Vol 3 \| Issues 7 \| Photo Essay \| Back to my Roots, Back to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Without lingering into metaphysics I'll say that I found in Bamiyan a source of inspiration, and it is thanks to it that my vocation as an archaeologist definitely began to express itself.
		And so from the top of its mountains, cliffs, towns, forts, monuments and its giant Buddha statues, Bamiyan has seen passing caravans of precious and rare goods, pilgrims, intellectuals, soldiers and unfortunately slaves and hordes of barbarians devastating everything on their passage, while for the most part, sparing its archaeological jewel.
		In Bamiyan the disaster was almost imperceptible for the niches in the shade did not at the first glimpse reveal the absence of the colossal Buddha statues.
	www.afghanmagazine.com /2004_09/photoessay/bamiyan2003.shtml (861 words)

	Buddhas of Bamiyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bamiyan, with its towering seventh-century Buddhas — one nearly 175 feet tall, the other 120 feet — is a prime target, as it has been in the past.
		Apart from Bamiyan's rarity as one of the few examples of monumental Buddhist sculpture, it holds a key to countless questions about how Buddhism developed internally and shaped or inflected virtually every culture in Asia.
		According to the art historians Susan and John Huntington, the carvings represent a form of the Buddha known as Vairocana, in whom the entire universe is encompassed, and in their stupendous scale, this immensity is made literal.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /bamiyan/bamiyan-asian-hist.htm (661 words)

	Bamiyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bamiyan city is the largest city in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan,and is the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic group that predominates in thearea.
		Bamiyan was a stopping offpoint for many travellers.
		The Band-i-Amir lakes in western Bamiyan province continue to be a touristdestination for Afghans.
	www.therfcc.org /bamiyan-15311.html (217 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Poverty and tribal pride in Bamiyan pose political challenge to new Afghan ...
		BAMIYAN, Afghanistan –; Along the winding dirt road that climbs into Afghanistan's remote central highlands from Kabul, the tattered campaign posters from October's presidential elections tell a worrying story for the victor, Hamid Karzai.
		Mohaqeq, a former commander in the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance and who was recently ditched from Karzai's Cabinet, traded on a renewed sense of ethnic pride among Hazaras and perceptions that their undeveloped corner of Afghanistan has missed out on foreign aid in the past three years.
		He streaked home with 76 percent of the Bamiyan vote, and fared even better in neighboring Daykundi province, also dominated by Hazaras, despite a third-place national finish with 11 percent of the ballots.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041031-1102-afghan-tribalpower.html (997 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Bamiyan Valley
		The Bamiyan Valley is on the World Heritage List of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) because of the significance of its...
		International outry followed the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, which were chiseled into the cliff more than 1,500 years ago in the central Bamiyan Valley...
		Bamiyan Valley, a mountainous province 95 miles northwest of the capital, Kabul, has been an island of calm as one of the regions where the US-led coalition...
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Bamiyan_Valley.htm (968 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan Buddha town looks to future - March 26, 2002
		BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (CNN) -- There are few places in Afghanistan where the Taliban left their mark more visibly than in Bamiyan.
		CNN looks at the Afghan town of Bamiyan, home to the 1,300-year-old Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban last year.
		Now in Bamiyan, as elsewhere in Afghanistan, the talk is of rebuilding for the future.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/25/gen.afghan.bamiyan (558 words)

	Afghanistan 1977 - Bamiyan Valley A last look at the Buddhas Destroyed by the Taliban.
		Afghanistan's reputation as a land of contrasts is enhanced by its major tourist attraction, the Valley of Bamiyan.
		Today the Afghan government, recognizing the historical importance of the Bamiyan statues and with the help of archeological teams is working to protect what remains.
		The best part of the Bamiyan Hotel is the magnificent view of the Buddhas on the opposite side of the valley and valley floor where the Afghan farmers go about their daily chores oblivious to the historical importance of their surroundings.
	www.neseabirds.com /Afghanistan/Bamiyan.htm (1398 words)

	TIMEasia.com: News -- 'I Feel A Great, Personal Loss'
		Bamiyan is located in a beautiful valley around 230 km north-west of Kabul.
		Bamiyan was such a sleepy little village that there was no place for us to stay, so they converted the local jail, called it the Bamiyan Hotel, and put us up there.
		In the 7th century the Chinese traveler Huan-Tsang passed through Bamiyan and wrote that "the faces of the giant Buddha figures were covered with gold and decorated with precious gems that dazzled the eye." Some reports suggest that the taller Buddha's robes had been painted red; the other painted blue.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/interview/0,9754,101547,00.html (1559 words)

	Bamiyan Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The life-size, lurid images will be projected on to the clay cliff faces of the Bamiyan Valley where the archaeological treasures originally stood on the Silk...
		The 1,600-year-old statues, which stood on the Silk Road in the Bamiyan Valley, were destroyed by the Taleban in 2001.
		The book ends with poems for the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley, who were attacked by the Taliban, and the World Trade Towers.
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Bamiyan_Valley.htm (599 words)

	Fate of Bamiyan Buddha statues hangs in balance
		PESHAWAR: The fate of two gigantic Buddha statues in Bamiyan hang in balance following the blasting of the eagle-shaped "Assembly hall" of Ismailis by Taliban in Kayan Valley of Afghanistan.
		However, the assurance to protect the historical monuments in case Bamiyan fell to the advancing students militia was given by no less a person than Amir-ul-Mumineen, Mullah Mohamad Omar.
		Mansoor Naderi and his son Jafar Naderi have taken refuge with the Shia faction in Bamiyan province after evicted by Taliban from their safe abode.
	www.rawa.org /bamyan.htm (590 words)

	Bamiyan: Professor Tarzi’s Survey and Excavation Archaeological Mission, 2003
		Bamiyan is best known for its two giant standing Buddha statues, carved into the rock of the great cliff dominating the north side of the peaceful valley.
		Bamiyan’s second period is revealed most clearly around the site of the stupa.
		This discovery confirms that the excavators have discovered the Bamiyan ”Eastern” monastery visited by Xuanzang where the 1000-foot-long reclining Buddha statue may yet be found.
	silkroadfoundation.org /newsletter/december/bamiyan.htm (1463 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The influence of the frescos of Bamiyan and Kakrak was felt from the 4th to the 9th centuries, right into the heart of Chinese Turkistan, as far as Japan.
		At the beginning of the Christian era, a large part of Afghanistan was Buddhist and Afghan missionaries sought distant fields and horizon to propagate the teaching of the Buddha.
		These two colossal status standing in their riches and overlooking the beautiful green valley of Bamiyan below, also give a picture of the life of the period in murals and frescoes, sections of which existed on the walls of the recesses.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/03/28/fea16.html (1255 words)

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