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AFGHANISTAN
Bamiyan Valley

Destroyed Standing Buddha

Year of Inscription: 2003

During the Maurya Dynasty, Buddhism

was brought to the Bamiyan area. The

thoughts of Sakyamuni were not only

popular here, but they also managed

to spread all the way to the east, and

entered the country through the Silk

Road. Xuanzang described in his book

that he went to Bamiyan and

witnessed two huge golden Buddha

statues carved out of the cliff. The

statue situated East with 37 meter

high, west statue with 55 meter high.

These two popular standing Buddha

statues, in the site was destroyed by

the Taliban in March 2001, which

stood for more than 1400 years in the

heart of Afghanistan. 巴⽶扬⼤佛 巴⽶扬 Bamiyan

Bamiyan Giant Buddha
（阿富汗 Afghanistan: 1978）
(阿富汗 Afgha