Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley' has mentioned 'Statue' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Some Taliban sources credited Omar's decision to blow up the Buddha Statue's to the growing influence of Osama bin Laden. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Attacks on the Buddha's statue 1.1.1 1998 to 2001, under the Taliban 1.1.2 2001, destruction by the Taliban 2 Commitment to rebuild 2.1 Developments since 2002 2.2 Another giant statue unearthed 3 Mural paintings 3.1 Eastern Buddha (built in AD 544 to 595) 3.1.1 Sun-God 3.1.2 Hephthalite donors 3.2 Western Buddha (built between AD 591 and 644) 3.3 Adjoining caves 4 Restoration 4.1 Rise of Buddhas with 3D light projection 4.2 Replicas 5 Gallery 6 Usage and in popular culture 6.1 In poetry 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links | WIKI |
| [12][13] Before being blown up in 2001 they were the largest examples of standing Buddha carvings in the world (the 8th century Leshan Giant Buddha is taller,[14] but that statue is sitting). | WIKI |
| Local men standing near the larger "Salsal" Buddha statue, c. 1940 Photographed by Franxc3xa7oise Foliot Smaller, 38 meter Buddha in 1977 A possible reconstitution of the original appearance and attitude of the Western Buddha. | WIKI |
| Attacks on the Buddha's statue[edit] | WIKI |
| Site of the larger statue after it was destroyed | WIKI |
| Site of the smaller statue in 2005 | WIKI |
| Fragments of the statues are documented and stored with special attention given to securing the structure of the statue still in place. | WIKI |
| Another giant statue unearthed[edit] | WIKI |
| On 8 September 2008, archaeologists searching for a legendary 300-metre statue at the site announced the discovery of parts of an unknown 19-metre (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a pose representing Buddha's Parinirvana. | WIKI |
| Researcher Erwin Emmerling of Technical University Munich announced he believed it would be possible to restore the smaller statue using an organic silicon compound. | WIKI |
| The larger statue reappears as the malevolent giant Salsal in medieval Turkish tales. | WIKI |