Buddha Statues of Bamiyan

Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Bamiyan

Bamiyan may refer to Bamiyan Province Bamiyan, the capital city of the Bamiyan Province The Buddhas of Bamiyan, statues The Bamiyan Valley Other related archivesBamiyan Province, Buddhas of Bamiyan

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia II - Status of religious freedom in Afghanistan - Discrimination against Hazara Shia Muslims Repression by the Taliban of the Hazara ethnic group, which is predominantly Shia Muslim, was particularly severe. Although the conflict between the Hazaras and the Taliban was political and military as well as religious, and it is not possible to state with certainty that the Taliban engaged in its campaign against the Shi'a solely because of their religious beliefs, the religious affiliation of the Hazaras apparently was a significant factor leading to their repression. The Taliban have been accused of committing mass killings of th ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Buddhas of Bamiyan

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. Most likely built in the fifth or sixth centuries, the statues represented a classic blending of Greek and Buddhist art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which was worn away long ago, w ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Bamiyan Province

Bamiyan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital city is also called Bamiyan. 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 the area. In antiquity, central Afghanistan was strategically placed to thrive from the Silk Road caravans which criss-crossed the region trading between the Roman Empire, China and India. Bamiyan was a stopping off point for many travellers. It was here where elements of Greek, Persian and Buddhist art were combined into ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Vairocana

According to the Buddhist Trikaya doctrine, Vairocana (also Vairochana or Mahavairocana; 大日如来 or 毘盧遮那佛 Chinese: Dàrì Rúlái or Biluzhenafo, Japanese: Dainichi Nyorai) is a Buddha who is the embodiment of Dharmakaya, and which therefore can be seen as the universal aspect of the historical Gautama Buddha. In the conception of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, Vairocana is at the center. Vairocana is the central figure in the esoteric Shingon Buddhism in Japan, which is based largely ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Art destruction

Art destruction involves the damaging or destruction of art work. This can happen through a natural process or human invovlement. Art destruction - Natural destruction. All physical works of art are slowly affected and degraded by the natual elements. Some artwork is created in spite of immediate destruction by nature, such as sand castles. In May 2004 a fire destroyed the Momart warehouse in East London which destroyed more than 50 works by abstract painter Patrick Heron and works by o ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Buddhist art

Buddhist art originated in the Indian subcontinent in the centuries following the life of the historical Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 5th century BCE, before evolving through its contact with other cultures and its diffusion through the rest of Asia and the world. A first, essentially Indian, aniconic phase (avoiding direct representations of the Buddha), was followed from around the 1st century CE by an iconic phase (with direct representations of the Buddha). From that time, Buddhist art diversified and evolved ...

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Buddhist art - Southern Buddhist art

Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Buddhism

Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, of the Shakyas. His lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 483 BCE; it spread throughout the Indian subcontinent in the five centuries following his death. Missionaries would carry Buddhism throughout Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, as well as East Asian countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in the following two millenia. Buddhism is classified as an Ārya dharma ("Noble religion") and is one ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Iconoclasm

Literally, iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. In Christian circles, iconoclasm has generally been motivated by a literal interpretation of the second of the ten commandments, which forbids the making and worshipping of "graven images". It has sometimes been motivated by christological or even political concerns as well. People who engage in such practices are called iconoclasts, a term that has come to be applied to any person who breaks or disdains established dogmas or conventions. Conversely, people who revere or venera ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Taliban

The Taliban (Persian and Pashto طالبان (plural), from the Arabic طالب (singular), "seeker" or "student"), also transliterated as Taleban, is a Wahhabi Islamist and Pashtun nationalist movement which effectively ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, despite having diplomatic recognition from only three countries: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. The most influential members, including Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the movement, were simple village ulema (Islamic religious sch ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Greco-Buddhism

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Græco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between the culture of Classical Greece and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 800 years in Central Asia in the area corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE. Greco-Buddhism influenced the artistic (and, possibly, conceptual) development of Buddhism, and in particular Mahayana Buddhism, before it was adopted by Central and Northeastern Asia from the 1st century CE, ultima ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Gansu

Gansu (Simplified: 甘肃; Traditional: 甘肅; Hanyu Pinyin: Gānsù; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, or modified as Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Huangtu Plateaus, and borders Mongolia to the north. The Huang He river passes the southern part of the province. It has a population of approximately 25 million (1997) and has a large concentration of Hui Chinese. The capital of the province is Lanz ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Science and technology in ancient India

Science and technology in ancient India covered all the major branches of human knowledge and activities, including mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medical science and surgery, fine arts, mechanical and production technology, civil engineering and architecture, shipbuilding and navigation, sports and games. Grant Duff, a British historian has remarked: “Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago”. Science a ...

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Buddha Statues of Bamiyan: Encyclopedia - Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashtu/Dari-Persian: افغانستان, Afğānistān) is a country at the crossroads of Asia. Usually placed in Central Asia geographically, Afghanistan is also sometimes categorized within South Asia and the Middle East, as it has either cultural, ethno-linguistic, and/or geographic links with most of its neighbors. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China to the east. It has a population of 30 million people, although this remains an estimate as ...

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