Giant sleeping buddha unearthed in Afghanistan
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On September 8, 2008 archeologists searching for the fabled 300 meter statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the discovery of a new 19-meter-long (62 ft) "sleeping Buddha", the pose known to Buddhists as the scene where the Buddha passed into nirvana. This discovery may have confirmed the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang's mention of a large Buddha in a sleeping posture in this area, which were recorded by Xuanzang one thousand four hundred years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3630167.stm
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Originally posted by (human):
On September 8, 2008 archeologists searching for the fabled 300 meter statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the discovery of a new 19-meter-long (62 ft) "sleeping Buddha", the pose known to Buddhists as the scene where the Buddha passed into nirvana. This discovery may have confirmed the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang's mention of a large Buddha in a sleeping posture in this area, which were recorded by Xuanzang one thousand four hundred years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3630167.stm
I have a strange feeling that this statue will also be blown up by the new Afghanistan govt. -
what abt kizarny
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discrimination there so bad that even Buddha has to go underground.
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If you read the history of Buddhism, Buddhism was driven out from India in the 11 or 13 century by the conqueror Islam. Thats how the early christians or Islam spread their religion by conquerquista (spanish word for wars). Buddhism was spread to Middle Eastern countries like in Afghanistan and also to Indonesia and Malaysia as well.