BAMIAN, Afghanistan — It took decades to build the magnificent stone Buddhas of Bamian. It took the Taliban nearly a month to obliterate them. The destruction required an extraordinary effort, so ...

According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...

The Taliban governor of Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been digging beneath the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in search of buried treasure. Afghan scholars are horrified by the news of further ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Sayed Mirza Hussain faced a wrenching dilemma: commit a shocking act of cultural destruction or be shot by the Taliban. It was just months before the 9/11 attacks, and Hussain ...

Mirza Hussain, and other prisoners like him, had labored for hours to stack mines, bombs and dynamite beneath the feet of Afghanistan’s most iconic public artwork — a 175-foot standing statue of the ...

A planned cultural center at the site of the lost Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is underway thanks to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

Ten years ago next month, the world watched in horror as Afghanistan’s Taliban regime blew up one of the ancient world’s most inspiring works of art: two standing Buddha statues, one at 125 feet and ...

Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas were symbols of the country’s rich cultural history. When extremists destroyed them, the world mourned a cultural and historical loss. Historians emphasize the global ...

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. But the decision by Unesco not to rebuild them has not put an end to the debate about their ...

The following is a signed article by Li Decheng, deputy director-general of and a research fellow with China Tibetology Research Center. Reincarnation of Living Buddhas never decided by reincarnated ...

Six living Buddhas graduated from a middle school under the Tibetan Buddhist College in Lhasa, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday. Photo: Snapshot of China News After performing an ...