000453404 000__ 03783cam\a2200589Ka\4500 000453404 001__ 453404 000453404 005__ 20220606151654.0 000453404 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000453404 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 000453404 008__ 121203s2012\\\\mauab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000453404 020__ $$a9780674065383$$qelectronic book 000453404 020__ $$a0674065387$$qelectronic book 000453404 020__ $$z9780674057883 000453404 020__ $$z0674057880 000453404 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn815276608 000453404 035__ $$a(OCoLC)815276608 000453404 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611368 000453404 035__ $$a453404 000453404 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674065383$$bDOI 000453404 040__ $$aN$T$$cN$T$$dYDXCP 000453404 043__ $$aa-af--- 000453404 049__ $$aISEA 000453404 050_4 $$aDS375.B36$$bM67 2012eb 000453404 08204 $$a958.1$$223 000453404 1001_ $$aMorgan, Llewelyn. 000453404 24514 $$aThe Buddhas of Bamiyan$$h[electronic resource] /$$cLlewelyn Morgan. 000453404 250__ $$a1st Harvard University Press ed. 000453404 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012. 000453404 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 242 p.) :$$bill., maps. 000453404 4901_ $$aWonders of the world 000453404 500__ $$a"First published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by Profile Books ... London"--T.p. verso. 000453404 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 204-217) and index. 000453404 5050_ $$aDynamite and celebrity -- Reimagining Bamiyan -- Islam contemplates the Buddhas -- On the trail of Alexander -- Bamiyan, its future and its past. 000453404 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000453404 520__ $$aFor 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great's armies. By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid for many of Afghanistan's current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazaras-descendants of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth century-had come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their very different religious identity.Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache. 000453404 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000453404 60000 $$aGautama Buddha$$xStatues$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 000453404 650_0 $$aBuddhist antiquities$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 000453404 650_0 $$aBuddhist sculpture$$zAfghanistan$$zBāmīān (Province) 000453404 650_0 $$aReligion and culture$$zAfghanistan. 000453404 650_0 $$aReligion and politics$$zAfghanistan. 000453404 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xDescription and travel. 000453404 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xAntiquities. 000453404 651_0 $$aBāmīān (Afghanistan : Province)$$xHistory. 000453404 651_0 $$aBamiyan Site (Afghanistan) 000453404 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMorgan, Llewelyn.$$tBuddhas of Bamiyan.$$b1st Harvard University Press ed.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674057883$$w(DLC) 2012006342$$w(OCoLC)758383261 000453404 830_0 $$aWonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.) 000453404 8520_ $$bacq 000453404 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000453404 85640 $$3EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494490$$zOnline Access 000453404 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:453404$$pGLOBAL_SET 000453404 980__ $$aEBOOK 000453404 980__ $$aBIB 000453404 982__ $$aEbook 000453404 983__ $$aOnline