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Subject:	Re: Bamiyan Buddhas
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.ancient
Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:29:08 GMT
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There is talk starting about rebuilding the Bamiyan Buddhas: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/04/18/afghanistan.sculptor.ap/index.html Quote: "They didn't understand that these statues don't belong to the Taliban. They belong to Afghanistan, to human history." --Amanulah Haiderzad, sculptor In lugnet.build.ancient, Erik Olson writes: > I had an idea for a sculpture, a rather obvious idea because it's in the > news now. [March 2001] This 3rd (?) century giant Buddha cliff-statue was just demolished > in Afghanistan. Here are some articles with 1997 photos: > > good photo - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010302/ts/mdf19474.html > article - > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20010302/wl/afghanistan_buddha_5qx.html > other nice photos: http://www2.rawa.org/buddha.htm > > They say that this was a unique Buddha in Hellenistic dress, on account of > that the two statues were situated on the "silk road" between east and west, > or rather, another legacy of Alexandrian cultural mixing. > > Building it out of Lego would be the least one could do, to salvage > something out of this stupidity. > > -Erik

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		Re: Bamiyan Buddhas
(...) What a great opportunity to rebuild them out of LEGO! (Sorry, I know, I should be more sombre. ;) ) LFB (24 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.ancient)

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		Bamiyan Buddhas
I had an idea for a sculpture, a rather obvious idea because it's in the news now. This 3rd (?) century giant Buddha cliff-statue was just demolished in Afghanistan. Here are some articles with 1997 photos: good photo - (URL) - (URL) nice photos: (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.ancient)

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