The Buddhas of Bamiyan / / Llewelyn Morgan.
For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wonders of the world : 20
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) :; 24 halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Dynamite and Celebrity
- 2 Reimagining Bamiyan
- 3 Islam Contempl ates the Buddhas
- 4 On the Trail of Alexander
- 5 Bamiyan, It s Future and It s Past
- Further Reading
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Backmatter