Accessibility links

Breaking News

Light Show Pays Tribute To Bamiyan Buddhas Destroyed By Taliban 20 Years Ago


Light Show Pays Tribute To Bamiyan Buddhas Destroyed By Taliban 20 Years Ago
please wait

No media source currently available

0:00 0:01:03 0:00

Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated their loss at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan Valley on March 9. As part of the commemorations by the Night with the Buddha project, a lantern-lit procession led to the base of the sandstone cliff where the statues once stood alongside caves, monasteries, and shrines.

Bamiyan Buddha 'Brought To Life' In Spectacular20 Years After
XS
SM
MD
LG