Standing Buddha Statues

THE world's two largest standing Buddhas - one of them 165ft high - were blown up by the Taliban in Afghanistan at the weekend. A Buddha of Bamiyan statue stands over 150 feet high above a small town situated at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains of In 2001 the Taliban blew up two giant standing buddha statues carved into a cliff face saying they were offensive to Islam, despite appeals worldwide. Later that year U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government, and work has begun to restore “The standing statue will face the sea, so it will bring in peace, harmony and prosperity to the people of South Australia.” Mr Chew says the statue will be constructed from 11 pieces, shipped to South Australia from China. Construction of the big The standing buddha statues are on polished wood bases. Police are investigating a sighting of a white Ford Falcon parked on a dirt track near the house days earlier. They said there was a man in the car. The statue looks even taller because of the three pedestals added few years after its completion. The total height of the complex is now 682 ft or 208 m. The Laykyun Setkyar, a standing Buddha statue on a 44 ft (13.5 m) throne, Khatakan Taung, Myanmar. Each of the 17 levels houses 21 Buddha statues, with different appearances, expressions and gestures. Standing in line on both sides of the main courtyard are 18 statues of arhats in a traditional spiritual rite, showing all of their expressions of joy .

The bigger statue is thought to be the world's tallest standing Buddha. It was not known how many of the thousands of other, smaller Buddhist statues in Afghanistan have been destroyed since Thursday. ''The Buddhas in Bamiyan were not touched today In standing position, it can reach double its height,” said Mr. Muthiah explained that in the beginning, the Buddha statue was planned as a 67-foot rock cut piece. The creation of a pedestal decorated with swans and elephants increased the height. The bronze standing statue of Tathagata Buddha was stolen from a shrine in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, by a group of Korean thieves in October 2012, also including another cultural property of Japan and of the prefecture, a seated statue of the Kanzeon The Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed after the Taliban militants group blew up the world’s two largest standing Buddhas – one of them were the two monumental Buddha statues carved out of the sandstone cliffs in central Afghanistan. .

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