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Article: Find stirs Sleeping Buddha talk; Archaeologists make discovery in Afghanistan.(WORLD)(BRIEFING/ASIA-PACIFIC)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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Byline: Maseeh Rahman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan - French archeologists searching for the colossal Sleeping Buddha in Bamiyan province have uncovered what could be the long-missing statue's foot, raising hopes of a major new discovery from Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist past.
Ever since the fundamentalist Taliban destroyed Bamiyan's 1,500-year-old Standing Buddhas in 2001 because they were "un-Islamic," attention has been focused on the hunt for the much larger Sleeping Buddha, described in the travel diary of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuan Zang and depicted in cave paintings at the historic site in the Hindu Kush mountains west of ...