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Auteur(s) : Morgan, Llewelyn
Titre(s) : The Buddhas of Bamiyan [Texte imprimé] : Llewelyn Morgan
Publication : Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012
Description matérielle : 242 p. : ill., cartes ; 21 cm
Collection : Wonders of the World
Lien à la collection : Wonders of the world
Note(s) : Main description: For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the
fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of
passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East
and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage.
Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a
fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented
a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia,
and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great's armies.
By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam
had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders
of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the
attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid
for many of Afghanistan's current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and
the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazaras-descendants
of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth century-had
come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their
very different religious identity.Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers,
and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells
the history of this region of paradox and heartache
Sujet(s) : Hazāra (peuple d'Afghanistan)
Art bouddhique -- Afghanistan -- Bāmiyān (Afghanistan ; région)
Antiquités bouddhiques -- Bāmiyān (Afghanistan ; région)
Bāmiyān (Afghanistan ; région) -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674065383. - ISBN 0674065387
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436220313
Notice n° :
FRBNF43622031
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