The Taliban governor of Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been digging beneath the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in search of buried treasure. Afghan scholars are horrified by the news of further ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Sayed Mirza Hussain faced a wrenching dilemma: commit a shocking act of cultural destruction or be shot by the Taliban. It was just months before the 9/11 attacks, and Hussain ...

A planned cultural center at the site of the lost Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is underway thanks to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

Ten years ago next month, the world watched in horror as Afghanistan’s Taliban regime blew up one of the ancient world’s most inspiring works of art: two standing Buddha statues, one at 125 feet and ...

Earlier this month, the visuals at the Delhi press briefing of Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Foreign Minister of Taliban-led Afghanistan, said it all. While the Taliban flag was before him, behind him was a ...

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. But the decision by Unesco not to rebuild them has not put an end to the debate about their ...

The following is a signed article by Li Decheng, deputy director-general of and a research fellow with China Tibetology Research Center. Reincarnation of Living Buddhas never decided by reincarnated ...

Six living Buddhas graduated from a middle school under the Tibetan Buddhist College in Lhasa, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday. Photo: Snapshot of China News After performing an ...

Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese ...

Plans for the great Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Taleban, are being discussed at a conference in Munich. The two-day meeting will consider the fate of what remains of the two huge ...