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The Buddhist remnants at Bamyan were included on the 2008 World Monuments Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monuments Fund. In 2013, the foot section of the smaller Buddha was rebuilt with iron rods, bricks and concrete by the German branch of ICOMOS . [ 84 ]
These attacks and demolitions targeted a variety of ancient and medieval artifacts, museums, libraries, and places of worship, among other sites of importance to human history. Between June 2014 and February 2015, the Islamic State's Salafi jihadists plundered and destroyed at least 28 historic religious buildings in Mosul alone. [ 1 ]
Numerous ancient and medieval sites and artifacts, including the ancient cities of Nimrud and Hatra, parts of the wall of Nineveh, the ruins of Bash Tapia Castle and Dair Mar Elia, and artifacts from the Mosul Museum were also destroyed. However, from 2018, a year after IS was defeated and driven out of Mosul, many churches, mosques and ...
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion ...
[41] [48] [44] Many monuments of ancient Indian civilization were destroyed by the invading armies, including Buddhist sanctuaries [49] near Benares. Buddhist monks who escaped the massacre fled to Nepal, Tibet and South India. [50] Tamerlane destroyed Buddhist establishments and raided areas in which Buddhism had flourished. [51] [52]
It is said that Hadda sustained significant damage in the Afghan Civil war and was destroyed in its entirety in 1980. [4] Tepe Shortor is a Buddhist monastery and stupa complex located at Hadda that was excavated between 1974 and 1979 by Afghan, and later French, archeologists. It is positioned midpoint on the main road from Kabul to Kandahar.
Other forms of Buddhism, such as the Mahayana Buddhism followed in Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan, flourished within the walls of the ancient school. A number of scholars have associated some Mahayana texts such as the Shurangama Sutra , an important sutra in East Asian Buddhism, with the Buddhist tradition at Nalanda.
One of the Buddhas of Bamiyan (destroyed by the Taliban in 2001) photographed at its base in August 1977 Ancient Buddhist cave in Jalalabad, 2009. Buddhism, a religion founded by Gautama Buddha, first arrived in modern-day Afghanistan through the conquests of Ashoka (r. 268–232 BCE), the third emperor of the Maurya Empire.