001398471 000__ 03771cam\a2200589Ka\4500 001398471 001__ 1398471 001398471 005__ 20220606151719.0 001398471 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001398471 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 001398471 008__ 220606s2012\\\\mauab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001398471 020__ $$a9780674065383$$qelectronic book 001398471 020__ $$a0674065387$$qelectronic book 001398471 020__ $$z9780674057883 001398471 020__ $$z0674057880 001398471 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn815276608 001398471 035__ $$a(OCoLC)815276608 001398471 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611368 001398471 035__ $$a453404 001398471 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674065383$$bDOI 001398471 040__ $$aN$T$$cN$T$$dYDXCP 001398471 043__ $$aa-af--- 001398471 049__ $$aISEA 001398471 050_4 $$aDS375.B36$$bM67 2012eb 001398471 08204 $$a958.1$$223 001398471 1001_ $$aMorgan, Llewelyn. 001398471 24514 $$aThe Buddhas of Bamiyan$$h[electronic resource] /$$cLlewelyn Morgan. 001398471 250__ $$a1st Harvard University Press ed. 001398471 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012. 001398471 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 242 p.) :$$bill., maps. 001398471 4901_ $$aWonders of the world 001398471 500__ $$a"First published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by Profile Books ... London"--T.p. verso. 001398471 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 204-217) and index. 001398471 5050_ $$aDynamite and celebrity -- Reimagining Bamiyan -- Islam contemplates the Buddhas -- On the trail of Alexander -- Bamiyan, its future and its past. 001398471 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001398471 520__ $$aFor 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great's armies. By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid for many of Afghanistan's current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazaras-descendants of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth century-had come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their very different religious identity.Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache. 001398471 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 001398471 60000 $$aGautama Buddha$$xStatues$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 001398471 650_0 $$aBuddhist antiquities$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 001398471 650_0 $$aBuddhist sculpture$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 001398471 650_0 $$aReligion and culture$$zAfghanistan. 001398471 650_0 $$aReligion and politics$$zAfghanistan. 001398471 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xDescription and travel. 001398471 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xAntiquities. 001398471 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xHistory. 001398471 651_0 $$aBamiyan Site (Afghanistan) 001398471 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMorgan, Llewelyn.$$tBuddhas of Bamiyan.$$b1st Harvard University Press ed.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674057883$$w(DLC) 2012006342$$w(OCoLC)758383261 001398471 830_0 $$aWonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.) 001398471 8520_ $$bacq 001398471 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press 001398471 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065383$$zOnline Access 001398471 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:453404$$pGLOBAL_SET 001398471 980__ $$aEBOOK 001398471 980__ $$aBIB 001398471 982__ $$aEbook 001398471 983__ $$aOnline