is said to be the world’s largest statue of a standing Buddha. The smaller statue is 37 metres tall. The Afghan army started destroying monuments considered blasphemous on Thursday, after a ...

Standing stoically in the heart of the Bamiyan Valley, some 160 kilometers North-West of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Buddha statues had been witness to almost 2000 years of the modern world's history.

It was the first Buddha ever found to the west of Afghanistan. The statue ... the statue was about 28 inches tall and showed Buddha standing up, holding parts of his robes in his left hand ...