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Breakfast with Dave ChefBy PalmerLOS ANGELES – Society of American Military Engineers contributions of Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire held their 13th annual joint 26th breakfast meeting in January. The guest speaker is currently the Acting Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Los Angeles District, Colonel Mark Toy introduced Merdith WB (Bo) Temple Major General, more than 100 members themselves. He said that among the many achievements of the general, he is the only person to hold all four general officer has the distinction of being the stick in the seat of the USACE. Once a permanent head is appointed, Temple Rente.Für service with 37 years of his remarks Temple took the opportunity to discuss where the Corps and the Army are today and where they went. “When the year 2011 ended, the body follow an unprecedented period of construction and project management was,” said Temple. “For example, over the past five years, when we linked billion Brac (Base Realignment and Closure) Construction labor works billion Reinvestment Act (stimulus) of the American Recovery and both programs military and civilian, and billions of Gulf Coast rescue work, “and in 2011 caused the catastrophe three explanations of a normal year.” USACE responded to devastating tornadoes and storms and spring hurricanes and severe tropical storms under the support of the National Response Framework of FEMA, “said Temple. “We are working with the $ 0.7 billion appropriated to complete the Corps budget disaster relief emergency repairs before the flood season 2012 is around the corner.” For the future, the general of the ongoing fiscal challenges the nation debated faces. “We are in a less secure environment with limited resources more complex, one focused on the development of systems and a greater collaboration approach and provide safe engineering solutions and quality time, on or under requires that operating costs for customers, stakeholders and partners. “Even with budget challenges on site for existing works, such as Los is the circle of programs the Obama administration as Great Outdoors America and the New Urban Waters Federal Partnership, the River Basin Los Angeles chosen as one of seven pilot sites, improve Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan benefits. “County of Los Angeles a staunch supporter of the revival of the river, with several ongoing studies and potential projects that will restore habitat on the river, public access to the river and promote recreational opportunities, “said Tempel. Military construction projects also hold great promise for the region. “Budget Division South Pacific FY 12 is approximately 0.2 billion euros, which is about 0 million more than last year, with two projects significant at Fort Irwin for the bulk of this increase “MILCON said Temple. “Another highlight is that the County of Los Angeles believes that they have awarded more than 0 million small businesses for the year 12″

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Breakfast with Dave ChefBy PalmerLOS ANGELES – Society of American Military Engineers contributions of Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire held their 13th annual joint 26th breakfast meeting in January. The guest speaker is currently the Acting Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Los Angeles District, Colonel Mark Toy introduced Merdith WB (Bo) Temple Major General, more than 100 members themselves. He said that among the many achievements of the general, he is the only person to hold all four general officer has the distinction of being the stick in the seat of the USACE. Once a permanent head is appointed, Temple Rente.Für service with 37 years of his remarks Temple took the opportunity to discuss where the Corps and the Army are today and where they went. “When the year 2011 ended, the body follow an unprecedented period of construction and project management was,” said Temple. “For example, over the past five years, when we linked billion Brac (Base Realignment and Closure) Construction labor works billion Reinvestment Act (stimulus) of the American Recovery and both programs military and civilian, and billions of Gulf Coast rescue work, “and about three times the insurance claims of a normal year of 2011.” USACE responded to devastating tornadoes and storms and spring storms and hurricanes tropical bass, under the support of the National Response Framework of FEMA, “said Temple. “We are working with the $ 0.7 billion appropriated to complete the Corps budget disaster relief emergency repairs before the flood season 2012 is around the corner.” For the future, the general of the ongoing fiscal challenges the nation debated faces. “We are in a less secure environment with limited resources more complex, one focused on the development of systems and a greater collaboration approach and provide safe engineering solutions and quality time, on or under requires that operating costs for customers, stakeholders and partners. “Even with budget challenges on site for existing works, such as Los is the circle of programs the Obama administration as Great Outdoors America and the New Urban Waters Federal Partnership, the River Basin Los Angeles chosen as one of seven pilot sites, improve Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan benefits. “County of Los Angeles a staunch supporter of the revival of the river, with several ongoing studies and potential projects that will restore habitat on the river, public access to the river and promote recreational opportunities, “said Tempel. Military construction projects also hold great promise for the region. “Budget Division South Pacific FY 12 is approximately 0.2 billion euros, which is about 0 million more than last year, with two projects significant at Fort Irwin for the bulk of this increase “MILCON said Temple. “Another highlight is that the County of Los Angeles believes that they have awarded more than 0 million small businesses for the year 12″

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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha in the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8202 feet carved). Built in 507 CE, the larger in 554 CE, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara Kunst.Die main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were mixed in the mud with straw modeled covered with stucco. This coating, practically all of them wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes, and the largest was painted carmine red and the smaller one was more colors gemalt.Die lower parts of the arms of the statues were built from the same mixture of straw mud while supported on wooden frames., it is believed that the upper parts of their faces with masks or large wood moldings have been made. rows of holes that can be seen from the pictures, the rooms were wooden pegs which stabilizes the exterior stucco gehalten.Die two Buddhas were blown out and destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, members of the orders of Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols, and therefore anti-Islamic. international opinion condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, support for the reconstruction of the statues verpfändet.Fotojournalist David Adams turned the Buddha before it was destroyed for an episode of travel to the ends of the earth, a travel series for Discovery Channel.GeschichteBamiyan located on the Silk Road through the highlands of the Hindu Kush running in the Bamiyan Valley., the Silk Road has historically been a caravan route linking the markets of China has been the world Western with them. It was the place several Buddhist monasteries and a thriving center of religion, philosophy and art. monks in monasteries lived as hermits in small caves carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan page. Most of these monks embellished their caves with religious statuary and elaborate, brightly colored frescoes and paintings on oil-based. It was a Buddhist religious site from the 2nd century to the time of the Islamic invasion in the second half of the 7th century. Until it has been completely conquered by the Muslims in the 9th century Saffarids, Bamiyan shared culture Gandhara.Die. the two most important statues were the rule giant Buddhas Vairocana and Sakyamuni, identified by the different mudras performed Buddha is popularly known as “solsol” 53 meters high and “Shahmama” 35 meters – the niches where the numbers are, 58 and 38 meters from the botom up. before it was blown up in 2001, the largest examples of standing Buddha carvings in the world (the century Leshan Giant Buddha 8 is larger, but the statue is located). Since Buddha Temple Spring was built in China, and (420 ft) to 128 meters, it is the tallest statue in the world. plans for the construction of the Spring Temple Buddha were shortly after the destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan and China condemned the systematic destruction of the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan angekündigt.Der smaller of the two statues was built in 544-595, 591-644 addition was built., you’ve probably been built by the Kushans with the help of local Buddhist monks, at the height of their empire., the largest number was also told that represent Buddha Dipankara. they were perhaps most famous cultural sites in the region, and the site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site with the surrounding cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley. verblasst.Chinesischen their color over time Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the site on April 30, 630 CE, and described Bamiyan in the Da Tang Xiyu Ji as a flourishing Buddhist center “with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks.” He also noted that the two Buddha statues were (Wriggins, 1995) “of gold and precious stones decorated very well. “It is worth mentioning Xuanzang a third even bigger statue of the reclining Buddha. monumental seated Buddha, similar to those of Bamyan style, Temple still exists in the Chinese province in caves Binglinsi Gansu.Die destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan has become a symbol of oppression and a rallying point for freedom of religion. Despite the fact that most Afghans are now Muslim, they too had embraced their past and many were appalled by the destruction . attacks against the statue of Buddha 11-20 JahrhundertIn EC 1221 with the rise of Genghis Khan “a terrible disaster befell Bamiyan, but the statues were spared. Later, the last Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb tried to use heavy artillery to destroy the statues. Another attempt was to destroy the statues of Bamiyan in the 18th Century Persian king Nader Afshar fact, weapons led to huge statues it.The, male Salsal (“light shines through the universe”) and (small ) female Shamama (“Queen Mother”), as they were called by the locals, has not failed to capture the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past.’s largest statue appears as malignant giant Salsal in medieval Turkish Märchen.Afghanischen King Abdur Rahman Khan destroyed his face during the military campaign against the Shia Hazara rebellion. Dureau had appointed a French abgebildet.Vorwort in 1847-2001 under the Taliban Abdul Wahed, said a Taliban commander in the region, his intention to blow up the Buddhas in 1997, before the control of the valley. Once he was in control of Bamiyan in 1998, Wahed holes in the Buddha heads for explosives. He was with the direct order Mullah Omar prevented further action by the local governor, even if the tires were burned on the head of the Great Buddha. In July 1999, Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree in favor of the preservation of the Bamiyan Buddha statues . Because Afghanistan Buddhist population no longer exists, so the statues are no longer to be worshiped, he added: “The government considers the Bamyan statues as an example of an important potential source of income for the Afghanistan from international visitors, the Taliban, who Bamiyan shall not be destroyed. aufzubauen.Allerdings but protected.In early 2000s, local Taliban authorities have requested assistance from the United Nations drainage ditches around tops of niches where Buddhas were religious radicals back from Afghanistan began a campaign to crack down against the “un-Islamic” segments of Afghan society. Taliban soon banned all forms of images, music and sports, including television, according to what she said as a strict interpretation of Scharia.Informations and Culture Minister Qadratullah Jamal Associated Press a decision 400 priests across Afghanistan, says Buddhist statues against the teachings of Islam. “They came to a consensus that the statues were against Islam,” said Jamal.Laut The Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, a meeting of ambassadors of the 54 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC was performed) All OIC -. including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three countries that officially recognized the Taliban government – joined the protest to save the monuments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates united later. condemned the destruction as “savages.” Although India has never recognized the Taliban regime in Afghanistan New Delhi offered to arrange the transfer of all the objects in question to India, “where they would be kept in safely and preserved for all humanity. ” The advances by the Taliban were rejected. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sent Moinuddin Haider to Kabul to try to prevent the destruction, arguing that it was anti-Islamic and unprecedented. [33] After the Taliban minister, Abdul Salam Saif UNESCO sent the Taliban government 36 letters opposing the proposed destruction. According to him, the Chinese, Japanese and Sri Lankan delegates were the strongest supporters of the preservation of the Buddha., The Japanese in particular a proposal for a variety of different solutions to the problem, this movement included statues Japan issued for the statues of the view and the payment of Geldes.Eine statement the Ministry of Religious Affairs under the Taliban regime justified the destruction in accordance with Islamic law. Abdulsalam Saif decided that the destruction of the Buddhas was finally Abdul Wali, Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice bestellt.Sprengung and destruction in March 2001 by TalibanDie statues were destroyed by dynamite over several weeks from of March 2, 2001 made in stages. Initially, the statues were fired at for several days using anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This serious damage, but not destroy them. During the destruction, complains Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal that “this work of destruction is not as easy as you think. You can not break down the statues by shelling as both are carved out of the rock. Are fixed on the mountain “[38] Later came the Taliban anti-tank mines at the bottom of the niches, so that when the rocks burst of artillery fire, the statues would further annihilation of particles triggered for mines. At the end of Taliban men down the cliff and placed explosives into holes in the Buddhas. not completely erase After the explosions, the face of one of the Buddhas was a rocket launch, which left a hole in the remains of the stone head. On March 6, 2001, the Times quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying: “Muslims should be proud to break the idols. He gave thanks to God who can destroy us. In an interview for March 13 Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel of Japan stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions: “We are destroying the statues in accordance with the Islamic law, and it is purely a religious Frage.Am March 18, the New York Times sent Taliban said the Islamic government offered its decision in a rage after a foreign delegation money to preserve old structures. adds report, however, added that other reports have said, “the religious leaders discussed the move for months, and finally decided that the statues were idolatrous and should be deleted in its entirety werden.Dann Taliban Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the heads of statues Hashimi words, it is reported:. “When the Afghani head of the Council urging them to provide the money to feed the children instead of fixing the statues, they refused and said. “No, money is only for statues, not for children” They took the decision to destroy the statues, but it did not want to say that a foreign museum of Buddhist statues, money that could be used to buy children to feed offered kommentieren.Die destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, despite the protests of the international community was started by Michael more false, a heritage expert at the Centre for Transcultural Studies in Germany, has been described as a Taliban attack against the concept of globalization of “cultural heritage”. the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsurra called for the destruction of a “crime against … Culture. It is odious to the cold and calculated destruction of cultural property, the legacy of the Afghan people have seen, and even if the numbers of the two large Buddhas are almost completely destroyed by all Menschheit.Engagement for Reconstruction Although their contours and some features could be seen in the wells. It is also still possible for visitors monks caves and passages that connect them to explore. As part of the international effort in Afghanistan after the Taliban war, the Government of Japan and several other organizations, including the Afghanistan Institute in Bubendorf, Switzerland, reconstruction with ETH Zurich, reconstruction committed, may by anastylosis be the two most Buddhas.Entwicklungen 2002Im since May 2002, carved into a mountain in Sri Lanka, a sculpture of Buddha. It has been designed to exactly one of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan ähneln.Die government commissioned Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata, the Buddhas of Bamiyan with fourteen laser systems for Buddha images on the cliff where they stood new project. The laser systems are solar and wind power. The project, which cost approximately million, is currently pending UNESCO Genehmigung.Im September 2005 to see the time of the destruction and widely seen as responsible for their appearance Mawlawi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, was elected to the Afghan Parliament. January 26, 2007, he was ermordet.Schweizer Kabul filmmaker Christian Frei has a 95-minute documentary titled The Giant Buddhas (released in March 2006) on the statues, the international reactions to their destruction, and an overview of the controversy. Confirmed by the Afghans Osama bin Laden testimony and ordered the destruction first against that Mullah Omar and the Afghans in Bamiyan it. [46] Since 2002, the International Recovery of funding support and stabilization efforts on the site. Fragments of the statues are still stored and documented with particular attention to the protection of the structure of the statue in place. It is expected to be partially anastylosis performed with the remaining fragments in the future. In 2009, ICOMOS scaffolding built in niche continues to maintain and improve. Nevertheless, there are several security issues and serious conservation and Buddhas are always World Heritage in Danger aufgeführt.Im summer of 2006, the Afghan authorities to decide on the timing of the reconstruction of the statues. As they opt for the Afghan government and the international community, while they wait to rebuild a project of 0.3 million UNESCO-funded sort of clay and plaster pieces – Very heavy blocks of fragments of size tennis balls – and accommodation before they Elementen.Die Bamiyan Buddhist relics were at the World Championship 2008 Monuments Watch List of 100 most endangered sites by the World Monuments Fund enthalten.EntdeckungenNach destruction of Buddhas 50 caves were discovered. In 12 of the caves wall paintings were discovered. In December 2004, said an international team of researchers, mural paintings in Bamiyan were between the 5th Century painted and 9 instead of 6-8 Century, found, based on the analysis of radioactive isotopes in the fibers Straw from the tables included. It is believed that the paintings by artists traveling on the Silk Road, the trade route between China and the West wurden.Wissenschaftler by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo (Japan), the Centre for Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS (France), the Getty Conservation Institute (United States) and the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble analyzed samples from paintings, usually less than 1 mm in diameter. They discovered that contains pigments such as cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) and white lead (lead carbonate). These were probably derived from mixed nuts or poppy with a series of binders, including resins, natural gums (skin glue may be animal or egg) and oils. Specifically, researchers identified drying oils from murals showing Buddhas in vermilion dress sitting cross amid palm leaves and mythical creatures in the middle of the 7th Century painted legs. It is believed that it is the oldest known surviving examples of oil painting, oil painting there may from time to Europe by more than six centuries. This discovery could führen.Anfangsverdacht a reassessment of works in ancient ruins in Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey and India as oils may be due to contamination of the fingers, as the feel of the paint encouraged Buddhist tradition is developed by spectroscopy and chromatography to give a clear signal for the intentional use of drying oils rather than contaminants removed. Oils were discovered under layers of paint, as opposed to Oberflächenkontaminanten.Wissenschaftler also found the beginning section of the original Sanskrit sutra pratityasamutpada of Xuanzang, the fundamental belief of Buddhism written and said that all things are impermanent übersetzt.Eine another huge statue ausgegrabenAm 8 September 2008 archaeologists announced the search for a legendary 300-meter statue at the site of the Buddha already exploded, the discovery of an unknown 19-meter (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a Buddha in this passage poses Nirwana . RestaurierungDie UNESCO Working Group of Experts on Afghan cultural projects convened to discuss what to do with the two statues between 3 and 4 March 2011 in Paris. Researcher Erwin Emmerling of the Technical University of Munich announced that it believed it would be possible to restore the smaller statue with an organic silicon compound. The Paris conference was a list of 39 recommendations for the protection of Bamiyan. This included leaving most western empty niche as a monument to the destruction of the Buddhas, a feasibility study on the reconstruction of the Buddha of the East, and the construction of a central museum and several small local museums. Work has begun since the restoration of the Buddha with the process anastylosis the original features with modern materials are combined. An estimated half of the Buddha pieces can be together again after Bert Praxenthaler, implicated in the restoration of an art historian and German sculptor. Restoration of Buddha caves and also involved the training and employment of local people as stonecutters. The project aims to promote tourism in the region, organized by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). The work was criticized. It is believed by some that the empty niches should be left under the monuments of fanaticism of the Taliban, felt, while others believe that money could be better spent on housing and electricity for the region. Some emphasize tourism as a random Buddha help rebuild the surrounding communities.

Bamiyan Buddhas and destroyed before the Taliban, circa 1980


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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha in the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8202 feet carved). Built in 507 CE, the larger in 554 CE, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara Kunst.Die main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were mixed in the mud with straw modeled covered with stucco. This coating, practically all of them wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes, and the largest was painted carmine red and the smaller one was more colors gemalt.Die lower parts of the arms of the statues were built from the same mixture of straw mud while supported on wooden frames., it is believed that the upper parts of their faces with masks or large wood moldings have been made. rows of holes that can be seen from the pictures, the rooms were wooden pegs which stabilizes the exterior stucco gehalten.Die two Buddhas were blown out and destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, members of the orders of Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols, and therefore anti-Islamic. international opinion condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, support for the reconstruction of the statues verpfändet.Fotojournalist David Adams turned the Buddha before it was destroyed for an episode of travel to the ends of the earth, a travel series for Discovery Channel.GeschichteBamiyan located on the Silk Road through the highlands of the Hindu Kush running in the Bamiyan Valley., the Silk Road has historically been a caravan route linking the markets of China has been the world Western with them. It was the place several Buddhist monasteries and a thriving center of religion, philosophy and art. monks in monasteries lived as hermits in small caves carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan page. Most of these monks embellished their caves with religious statuary and elaborate, brightly colored frescoes and paintings on oil-based. It was a Buddhist religious site from the 2nd century to the time of the Islamic invasion in the second half of the 7th century. Until it has been completely conquered by the Muslims in the 9th century Saffarids, Bamiyan shared culture Gandhara.Die. the two most important statues were the rule giant Buddhas Vairocana and Sakyamuni, identified by the different mudras performed Buddha is popularly known as “solsol” 53 meters high and “Shahmama” 35 meters – the niches where the numbers are, 58 and 38 meters from the botom up. before it was blown up in 2001, the largest examples of standing Buddha carvings in the world (the century Leshan Giant Buddha 8 is larger, but the statue is located). Since Buddha Temple Spring was built in China, and (420 ft) to 128 meters, it is the tallest statue in the world. plans for the construction of the Spring Temple Buddha were shortly after the destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan and China condemned the systematic destruction of the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan angekündigt.Der smaller of the two statues was built in 544-595, 591-644 addition was built., you’ve probably been built by the Kushans with the help of local Buddhist monks, at the height of their empire., the largest number was also told that represent Buddha Dipankara. they were perhaps most famous cultural sites in the region, and the site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site with the surrounding cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley. verblasst.Chinesischen their color over time Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the site on April 30, 630 CE, and described Bamiyan in the Da Tang Xiyu Ji as a flourishing Buddhist center “with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks.” He also noted that the two Buddha statues were (Wriggins, 1995) “of gold and precious stones decorated very well. “It is worth mentioning Xuanzang a third even bigger statue of the reclining Buddha. monumental seated Buddha, similar to those of Bamyan style, Temple still exists in the Chinese province in caves Binglinsi Gansu.Die destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan has become a symbol of oppression and a rallying point for freedom of religion. Despite the fact that most Afghans are now Muslim, they too had embraced their past and many were appalled by the destruction . attacks against the statue of Buddha 11-20 JahrhundertIn EC 1221 with the rise of Genghis Khan “a terrible disaster befell Bamiyan, but the statues were spared. Later, the last Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb tried to use heavy artillery to destroy the statues. Another attempt was to destroy the statues of Bamiyan in the 18th Century Persian king Nader Afshar fact, weapons led to huge statues it.The, male Salsal (“light shines through the universe”) and (small ) female Shamama (“Queen Mother”), as they were called by the locals, has not failed to capture the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past.’s largest statue appears as malignant giant Salsal in medieval Turkish Märchen.Afghanischen King Abdur Rahman Khan destroyed his face during the military campaign against the Shia Hazara rebellion. Dureau had appointed a French abgebildet.Vorwort in 1847-2001 under the Taliban Abdul Wahed, said a Taliban commander in the region, his intention to blow up the Buddhas in 1997, before the control of the valley. Once he was in control of Bamiyan in 1998, Wahed holes in the Buddha heads for explosives. He was with the direct order Mullah Omar prevented further action by the local governor, even if the tires were burned on the head of the Great Buddha. In July 1999, Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree in favor of the preservation of the Bamiyan Buddha statues . Because Afghanistan Buddhist population no longer exists, so the statues are no longer to be worshiped, he added: “The government considers the Bamyan statues as an example of an important potential source of income for the Afghanistan from international visitors, the Taliban, who Bamiyan shall not be destroyed. aufzubauen.Allerdings but protected.In early 2000s, local Taliban authorities have requested assistance from the United Nations drainage ditches around tops of niches where Buddhas were religious radicals back from Afghanistan began a campaign to crack down against the “un-Islamic” segments of Afghan society. Taliban soon banned all forms of images, music and sports, including television, according to what she said as a strict interpretation of Scharia.Informations and Culture Minister Qadratullah Jamal Associated Press a decision 400 priests across Afghanistan, says Buddhist statues against the teachings of Islam. “They came to a consensus that the statues were against Islam,” said Jamal.Laut The Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, a meeting of ambassadors of the 54 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC was performed) All OIC -. including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three countries that officially recognized the Taliban government – joined the protest to save the monuments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates united later. condemned the destruction as “savages.” Although India has never recognized the Taliban regime in Afghanistan New Delhi offered to arrange the transfer of all the objects in question to India, “where they would be kept in safely and preserved for all humanity. ” The advances by the Taliban were rejected. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sent Moinuddin Haider to Kabul to try to prevent the destruction, arguing that it was anti-Islamic and unprecedented. [33] After the Taliban minister, Abdul Salam Saif UNESCO sent the Taliban government 36 letters opposing the proposed destruction. According to him, the Chinese, Japanese and Sri Lankan delegates were the strongest supporters of the preservation of the Buddha., The Japanese in particular a proposal for a variety of different solutions to the problem, this movement included statues Japan issued for the statues of the view and the payment of Geldes.Eine statement the Ministry of Religious Affairs under the Taliban regime justified the destruction in accordance with Islamic law. Abdulsalam Saif decided that the destruction of the Buddhas was finally Abdul Wali, Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice bestellt.Sprengung and destruction in March 2001 by TalibanDie statues were destroyed by dynamite over several weeks from of March 2, 2001 made in stages. Initially, the statues were fired at for several days using anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This serious damage, but not destroy them. During the destruction, complains Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal that “this work of destruction is not as easy as you think. You can not break down the statues by shelling as both are carved out of the rock. Are fixed on the mountain “[38] Later came the Taliban anti-tank mines at the bottom of the niches, so that when the rocks burst of artillery fire, the statues would further annihilation of particles triggered for mines. At the end of Taliban men down the cliff and placed explosives into holes in the Buddhas. not completely erase After the explosions, the face of one of the Buddhas was a rocket launch, which left a hole in the remains of the stone head. On March 6, 2001, the Times quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying: “Muslims should be proud to break the idols. He gave thanks to God who can destroy us. In an interview for March 13 Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel of Japan stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions: “We are destroying the statues in accordance with the Islamic law, and it is purely a religious Frage.Am March 18, the New York Times sent Taliban said the Islamic government offered its decision in a rage after a foreign delegation money to preserve old structures. adds report, however, added that other reports have said, “the religious leaders discussed the move for months, and finally decided that the statues were idolatrous and should be deleted in its entirety werden.Dann Taliban Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the heads of statues Hashimi words, it is reported:. “When the Afghani head of the Council urging them to provide the money to feed the children instead of fixing the statues, they refused and said. “No, money is only for statues, not for children” They took the decision to destroy the statues, but it did not want to say that a foreign museum of Buddhist statues, money that could be used to buy children to feed offered kommentieren.Die destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, despite the protests of the international community was started by Michael more false, a heritage expert at the Centre for Transcultural Studies in Germany, has been described as a Taliban attack against the concept of globalization of “cultural heritage”. the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsurra called for the destruction of a “crime against … Culture. It is odious to the cold and calculated destruction of cultural property, the legacy of the Afghan people have seen, and even if the numbers of the two large Buddhas are almost completely destroyed by all Menschheit.Engagement for Reconstruction Although their contours and some features could be seen in the wells. It is also still possible for visitors monks caves and passages that connect them to explore. As part of the international effort in Afghanistan after the Taliban war, the Government of Japan and several other organizations, including the Afghanistan Institute in Bubendorf, Switzerland, reconstruction with ETH Zurich, reconstruction committed, may by anastylosis be the two most Buddhas.Entwicklungen 2002Im since May 2002, carved into a mountain in Sri Lanka, a sculpture of Buddha. It has been designed to exactly one of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan ähneln.Die government commissioned Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata, the Buddhas of Bamiyan with fourteen laser systems for Buddha images on the cliff where they stood new project. The laser systems are solar and wind power. The project, which cost approximately million, is currently pending UNESCO Genehmigung.Im September 2005 to see the time of the destruction and widely seen as responsible for their appearance Mawlawi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, was elected to the Afghan Parliament. January 26, 2007, he was ermordet.Schweizer Kabul filmmaker Christian Frei has a 95-minute documentary titled The Giant Buddhas (released in March 2006) on the statues, the international reactions to their destruction, and an overview of the controversy. Confirmed by the Afghans Osama bin Laden testimony and ordered the destruction first against that Mullah Omar and the Afghans in Bamiyan it. [46] Since 2002, the International Recovery of funding support and stabilization efforts on the site. Fragments of the statues are still stored and documented with particular attention to the protection of the structure of the statue in place. It is expected to be partially anastylosis performed with the remaining fragments in the future. In 2009, ICOMOS scaffolding built in niche continues to maintain and improve. Nevertheless, there are several security issues and serious conservation and Buddhas are always World Heritage in Danger aufgeführt.Im summer of 2006, the Afghan authorities to decide on the timing of the reconstruction of the statues. As they opt for the Afghan government and the international community, while they wait to rebuild a project of 0.3 million UNESCO-funded sort of clay and plaster pieces – Very heavy blocks of fragments of size tennis balls – and accommodation before they Elementen.Die Bamiyan Buddhist relics were at the World Championship 2008 Monuments Watch List of 100 most endangered sites by the World Monuments Fund enthalten.EntdeckungenNach destruction of Buddhas 50 caves were discovered. In 12 of the caves wall paintings were discovered. In December 2004, said an international team of researchers, mural paintings in Bamiyan were between the 5th Century painted and 9 instead of 6-8 Century, found, based on the analysis of radioactive isotopes in the fibers Straw from the tables included. It is believed that the paintings by artists traveling on the Silk Road, the trade route between China and the West wurden.Wissenschaftler by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo (Japan), the Centre for Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS (France), the Getty Conservation Institute (United States) and the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble analyzed samples from paintings, usually less than 1 mm in diameter. They discovered that contains pigments such as cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) and white lead (lead carbonate). These were probably derived from mixed nuts or poppy with a series of binders, including resins, natural gums (skin glue may be animal or egg) and oils. Specifically, researchers identified drying oils from murals showing Buddhas in vermilion dress sitting cross amid palm leaves and mythical creatures in the middle of the 7th Century painted legs. It is believed that it is the oldest known surviving examples of oil painting, oil painting there may from time to Europe by more than six centuries. This discovery could führen.Anfangsverdacht a reassessment of works in ancient ruins in Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey and India as oils may be due to contamination of the fingers, as the feel of the paint encouraged Buddhist tradition is developed by spectroscopy and chromatography to give a clear signal for the intentional use of drying oils rather than contaminants removed. Oils were discovered under layers of paint, as opposed to Oberflächenkontaminanten.Wissenschaftler also found the beginning section of the original Sanskrit sutra pratityasamutpada of Xuanzang, the fundamental belief of Buddhism written and said that all things are impermanent übersetzt.Eine another huge statue ausgegrabenAm 8 September 2008 archaeologists announced the search for a legendary 300-meter statue at the site of the Buddha already exploded, the discovery of an unknown 19-meter (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a Buddha in this passage poses Nirwana . RestaurierungDie UNESCO Working Group of Experts on Afghan cultural projects convened to discuss what to do with the two statues between 3 and 4 March 2011 in Paris. Researcher Erwin Emmerling of the Technical University of Munich announced that it believed it would be possible to restore the smaller statue with an organic silicon compound. The Paris conference was a list of 39 recommendations for the protection of Bamiyan. This included leaving most western empty niche as a monument to the destruction of the Buddhas, a feasibility study on the reconstruction of the Buddha of the East, and the construction of a central museum and several small local museums. Work has begun since the restoration of the Buddha with the process anastylosis the original features with modern materials are combined. An estimated half of the Buddha pieces can be together again after Bert Praxenthaler, implicated in the restoration of an art historian and German sculptor. Restoration of Buddha caves and also involved the training and employment of local people as stonecutters. The project aims to promote tourism in the region, organized by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). The work was criticized. It is believed by some that the empty niches should be left under the monuments of fanaticism of the Taliban, felt, while others believe that money could be better spent on housing and electricity for the region. Some emphasize tourism as a random Buddha help rebuild the surrounding communities.

Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley region of Hazarajat, Afghanistan


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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha in the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8202 feet carved). Built in 507 CE, the larger in 554 CE, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara Kunst.Die main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were mixed in the mud with straw modeled covered with stucco. This coating, practically all of them wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes, and the largest was painted carmine red and the smaller one was more colors gemalt.Die lower parts of the arms of the statues were built from the same mixture of straw mud while supported on wooden frames., it is believed that the upper parts of their faces with masks or large wood moldings have been made. rows of holes that can be seen from the pictures, the rooms were wooden pegs which stabilizes the exterior stucco gehalten.Die two Buddhas were blown out and destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, members of the orders of Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols, and therefore anti-Islamic. international opinion condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, support for the reconstruction of the statues verpfändet.Fotojournalist David Adams turned the Buddha before it was destroyed for an episode of travel to the ends of the earth, a travel series for Discovery Channel.GeschichteBamiyan located on the Silk Road through the highlands of the Hindu Kush running in the Bamiyan Valley., the Silk Road has historically been a caravan route linking the markets of China has been the world Western with them. It was the place several Buddhist monasteries and a thriving center of religion, philosophy and art. monks in monasteries lived as hermits in small caves carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan page. Most of these monks embellished their caves with religious statuary and elaborate, brightly colored frescoes and paintings on oil-based. It was a Buddhist religious site from the 2nd century to the time of the Islamic invasion in the second half of the 7th century. Until it has been completely conquered by the Muslims in the 9th century Saffarids, Bamiyan shared culture Gandhara.Die. the two most important statues were the rule giant Buddhas Vairocana and Sakyamuni, identified by the different mudras performed Buddha is popularly known as “solsol” 53 meters high and “Shahmama” 35 meters – the niches where the numbers are, 58 and 38 meters from the botom up. before it was blown up in 2001, the largest examples of standing Buddha carvings in the world (the century Leshan Giant Buddha 8 is larger, but the statue is located). Since Buddha Temple Spring was built in China, and (420 ft) to 128 meters, it is the tallest statue in the world. plans for the construction of the Spring Temple Buddha were shortly after the destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan and China condemned the systematic destruction of the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan angekündigt.Der smaller of the two statues was built in 544-595, 591-644 addition was built., you’ve probably been built by the Kushans with the help of local Buddhist monks, at the height of their empire., the largest number was also told that represent Buddha Dipankara. they were perhaps most famous cultural sites in the region, and the site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site with the surrounding cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley. verblasst.Chinesischen their color over time Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the site on April 30, 630 CE, and described Bamiyan in the Da Tang Xiyu Ji as a flourishing Buddhist center “with more than ten monasteries and more than a thousand monks.” He also noted that the two Buddha statues were (Wriggins, 1995) “of gold and precious stones decorated very well. “It is worth mentioning Xuanzang a third even bigger statue of the reclining Buddha. monumental seated Buddha, similar to those of Bamyan style, Temple still exists in the Chinese province in caves Binglinsi Gansu.Die destruction of the Buddhas Bamiyan has become a symbol of oppression and a rallying point for freedom of religion. Despite the fact that most Afghans are now Muslim, they too had embraced their past and many were appalled by the destruction . attacks against the statue of Buddha 11-20 JahrhundertIn EC 1221 with the rise of Genghis Khan “a terrible disaster befell Bamiyan, but the statues were spared. Later, the last Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb tried to use heavy artillery to destroy the statues. Another attempt was to destroy the statues of Bamiyan in the 18th Century Persian king Nader Afshar fact, weapons led to huge statues it.The, male Salsal (“light shines through the universe”) and (small ) female Shamama (“Queen Mother”), as they were called by the locals, has not failed to capture the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past.’s largest statue appears as malignant giant Salsal in medieval Turkish Märchen.Afghanischen King Abdur Rahman Khan destroyed his face during the military campaign against the Shia Hazara rebellion. Dureau had appointed a French abgebildet.Vorwort in 1847-2001 under the Taliban Abdul Wahed, said a Taliban commander in the region, his intention to blow up the Buddhas in 1997, before the control of the valley. Once he was in control of Bamiyan in 1998, Wahed holes in the Buddha heads for explosives. He was with the direct order Mullah Omar prevented further action by the local governor, even if the tires were burned on the head of the Great Buddha. In July 1999, Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree in favor of the preservation of the Bamiyan Buddha statues . Because Afghanistan Buddhist population no longer exists, so the statues are no longer to be worshiped, he added: “The government considers the Bamyan statues as an example of an important potential source of income for the Afghanistan from international visitors, the Taliban, who Bamiyan shall not be destroyed. aufzubauen.Allerdings but protected.In early 2000s, local Taliban authorities have requested assistance from the United Nations drainage ditches around tops of niches where Buddhas were religious radicals back from Afghanistan began a campaign to crack down against the “un-Islamic” segments of Afghan society. Taliban soon banned all forms of images, music and sports, including television, according to what she said as a strict interpretation of Scharia.Informations and Culture Minister Qadratullah Jamal Associated Press a decision 400 priests across Afghanistan, says Buddhist statues against the teachings of Islam. “They came to a consensus that the statues were against Islam,” said Jamal.Laut The Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, a meeting of ambassadors of the 54 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC was performed) All OIC -. including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three countries that officially recognized the Taliban government – joined the protest to save the monuments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates united later. condemned the destruction as “savages.” Although India has never recognized the Taliban regime in Afghanistan New Delhi offered to arrange the transfer of all the objects in question to India, “where they would be kept in safely and preserved for all humanity. ” The advances by the Taliban were rejected. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sent Moinuddin Haider to Kabul to try to prevent the destruction, arguing that it was anti-Islamic and unprecedented. [33] After the Taliban minister, Abdul Salam Saif UNESCO sent the Taliban government 36 letters opposing the proposed destruction. According to him, the Chinese, Japanese and Sri Lankan delegates were the strongest supporters of the preservation of the Buddha., The Japanese in particular a proposal for a variety of different solutions to the problem, this movement included statues Japan issued for the statues of the view and the payment of Geldes.Eine statement the Ministry of Religious Affairs under the Taliban regime justified the destruction in accordance with Islamic law. Abdulsalam Saif decided that the destruction of the Buddhas was finally Abdul Wali, Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice bestellt.Sprengung and destruction in March 2001 by TalibanDie statues were destroyed by dynamite over several weeks from of March 2, 2001 made in stages. Initially, the statues were fired at for several days using anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This serious damage, but not destroy them. During the destruction, complains Taliban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal that “this work of destruction is not as easy as you think. You can not break down the statues by shelling as both are carved out of the rock. Are fixed on the mountain “[38] Later came the Taliban anti-tank mines at the bottom of the niches, so that when the rocks burst of artillery fire, the statues would further annihilation of particles triggered for mines. At the end of Taliban men down the cliff and placed explosives into holes in the Buddhas. not completely erase After the explosions, the face of one of the Buddhas was a rocket launch, which left a hole in the remains of the stone head. On March 6, 2001, the Times quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying: “Muslims should be proud to break the idols. He gave thanks to God who can destroy us. In an interview for March 13 Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel of Japan stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions: “We are destroying the statues in accordance with the Islamic law, and it is purely a religious Frage.Am March 18, the New York Times sent Taliban said the Islamic government offered its decision in a rage after a foreign delegation money to preserve old structures. adds report, however, added that other reports have said, “the religious leaders discussed the move for months, and finally decided that the statues were idolatrous and should be deleted in its entirety werden.Dann Taliban Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the heads of statues Hashimi words, it is reported:. “When the Afghani head of the Council urging them to provide the money to feed the children instead of fixing the statues, they refused and said. “No, money is only for statues, not for children” They took the decision to destroy the statues, but it did not want to say that a foreign museum of Buddhist statues, money that could be used to buy children to feed offered kommentieren.Die destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, despite the protests of the international community was started by Michael more false, a heritage expert at the Centre for Transcultural Studies in Germany, has been described as a Taliban attack against the concept of globalization of “cultural heritage”. the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsurra called for the destruction of a “crime against … Culture. It is odious to the cold and calculated destruction of cultural property, the legacy of the Afghan people have seen, and even if the numbers of the two large Buddhas are almost completely destroyed by all Menschheit.Engagement for Reconstruction Although their contours and some features could be seen in the wells. It is also still possible for visitors monks caves and passages that connect them to explore. As part of the international effort in Afghanistan after the Taliban war, the Government of Japan and several other organizations, including the Afghanistan Institute in Bubendorf, Switzerland, reconstruction with ETH Zurich, reconstruction committed, may by anastylosis be the two most Buddhas.Entwicklungen 2002Im since May 2002, carved into a mountain in Sri Lanka, a sculpture of Buddha. It has been designed to exactly one of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan ähneln.Die government commissioned Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata, the Buddhas of Bamiyan with fourteen laser systems for Buddha images on the cliff where they stood new project. The laser systems are solar and wind power. The project, which cost approximately million, is currently pending UNESCO Genehmigung.Im September 2005 to see the time of the destruction and widely seen as responsible for their appearance Mawlawi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, was elected to the Afghan Parliament. January 26, 2007, he was ermordet.Schweizer Kabul filmmaker Christian Frei has a 95-minute documentary titled The Giant Buddhas (released in March 2006) on the statues, the international reactions to their destruction, and an overview of the controversy. Confirmed by the Afghans Osama bin Laden testimony and ordered the destruction first against that Mullah Omar and the Afghans in Bamiyan it. [46] Since 2002, the International Recovery of funding support and stabilization efforts on the site. Fragments of the statues are still stored and documented with particular attention to the protection of the structure of the statue in place. It is expected to be partially anastylosis performed with the remaining fragments in the future. In 2009, ICOMOS scaffolding built in niche continues to maintain and improve. Nevertheless, there are several security issues and serious conservation and Buddhas are always World Heritage in Danger aufgeführt.Im summer of 2006, the Afghan authorities to decide on the timing of the reconstruction of the statues. As they opt for the Afghan government and the international community, while they wait to rebuild a project of 0.3 million UNESCO-funded sort of clay and plaster pieces – Very heavy blocks of fragments of size tennis balls – and accommodation before they Elementen.Die Bamiyan Buddhist relics were at the World Championship 2008 Monuments Watch List of 100 most endangered sites by the World Monuments Fund enthalten.EntdeckungenNach destruction of Buddhas 50 caves were discovered. In 12 of the caves wall paintings were discovered. In December 2004, said an international team of researchers, mural paintings in Bamiyan were between the 5th Century painted and 9 instead of 6-8 Century, found, based on the analysis of radioactive isotopes in the fibers Straw from the tables included. It is believed that the paintings by artists traveling on the Silk Road, the trade route between China and the West wurden.Wissenschaftler by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo (Japan), the Centre for Research and Restoration of the French Museums-CNRS (France), the Getty Conservation Institute (United States) and the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble analyzed samples from paintings, usually less than 1 mm in diameter. They discovered that contains pigments such as cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) and white lead (lead carbonate). These were probably derived from mixed nuts or poppy with a series of binders, including resins, natural gums (skin glue may be animal or egg) and oils. Specifically, researchers identified drying oils from murals showing Buddhas in vermilion dress sitting cross amid palm leaves and mythical creatures in the middle of the 7th Century painted legs. It is believed that it is the oldest known surviving examples of oil painting, oil painting there may from time to Europe by more than six centuries. This discovery could führen.Anfangsverdacht a reassessment of works in ancient ruins in Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey and India as oils may be due to contamination of the fingers, as the feel of the paint encouraged Buddhist tradition is developed by spectroscopy and chromatography to give a clear signal for the intentional use of drying oils rather than contaminants removed. Oils were discovered under layers of paint, as opposed to Oberflächenkontaminanten.Wissenschaftler also found the beginning section of the original Sanskrit sutra pratityasamutpada of Xuanzang, the fundamental belief of Buddhism written and said that all things are impermanent übersetzt.Eine another huge statue ausgegrabenAm 8 September 2008 archaeologists announced the search for a legendary 300-meter statue at the site of the Buddha already exploded, the discovery of an unknown 19-meter (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a Buddha in this passage poses Nirwana . RestaurierungDie UNESCO Working Group of Experts on Afghan cultural projects convened to discuss what to do with the two statues between 3 and 4 March 2011 in Paris. Researcher Erwin Emmerling of the Technical University of Munich announced that it believed it would be possible to restore the smaller statue with an organic silicon compound. The Paris conference was a list of 39 recommendations for the protection of Bamiyan. This included leaving most western empty niche as a monument to the destruction of the Buddhas, a feasibility study on the reconstruction of the Buddha of the East, and the construction of a central museum and several small local museums. Work has begun since the restoration of the Buddha with the process anastylosis the original features with modern materials are combined. An estimated half of the Buddha pieces can be together again after Bert Praxenthaler, implicated in the restoration of an art historian and German sculptor. Restoration of Buddha caves and also involved the training and employment of local people as stonecutters. The project aims to promote tourism in the region, organized by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). The work was criticized. It is believed by some that the empty niches should be left under the monuments of fanaticism of the Taliban, felt, while others believe that money could be better spent on housing and electricity for the region. Some emphasize tourism as a random Buddha help rebuild the surrounding communities.