001479115 000__ 04892nam\a22008175i\4500 001479115 001__ 1479115 001479115 003__ DE-B1597 001479115 005__ 20231026035012.0 001479115 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479115 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479115 008__ 230918t20122012mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479115 020__ $$a9780674065383 001479115 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674065383$$2doi 001479115 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178206 001479115 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479115 0410_ $$aeng 001479115 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479115 072_7 $$aARC024010$$2bisacsh 001479115 1001_ $$aMorgan, Llewelyn, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479115 24514 $$aThe Buddhas of Bamiyan /$$cLlewelyn Morgan. 001479115 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2012] 001479115 264_4 $$c©2012 001479115 300__ $$a1 online resource (206 p.) :$$b24 halftones, 1 map 001479115 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479115 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479115 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479115 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479115 4900_ $$aWonders of the world : 20 001479115 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tForeword -- $$t1 Dynamite and Celebrity -- $$t2 Reimagining Bamiyan -- $$t3 Islam Contempl ates the Buddhas -- $$t4 On the Trail of Alexander -- $$t5 Bamiyan, It s Future and It s Past -- $$tFurther Reading -- $$tIllustrations -- $$tAcknowledgements -- $$tIndex -- $$tBackmatter 001479115 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479115 520__ $$aFor 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great's armies. By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid for many of Afghanistan's current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazaras-descendants of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth century-had come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their very different religious identity.Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache. 001479115 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479115 546__ $$aIn English. 001479115 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479115 650_4 $$aARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments$$2sh. 001479115 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479115 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$z9783110442212 001479115 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001479115 852__ $$bebk 001479115 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674065383$$zOnline Access 001479115 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479115$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479115 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479115 912__ $$a978-3-11-044221-2 HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$c1893$$d1999 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_CL_AD 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_AD 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_ESTMALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479115 912__ $$aEBA_STMALL 001479115 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479115 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479115 912__ $$aPDA12STME 001479115 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479115 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479115 912__ $$aPDA18STMEE 001479115 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479115 980__ $$aBIB 001479115 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479115 982__ $$aEbook 001479115 983__ $$aOnline