Christ painting

Christ painting
church painting
Many Buddhist countries have been especially angered at the destruction of Afghanistan's pre-Islamic Buddhist heritage, although the Taliban have denied the campaign was aimed against their religion. Taliban authorities say they may lift a ban on journalists visiting Bamiyan on Wednesday to allow them to see the rubble of the sculptures, which once soared 53 metres and 38 metres. Museum statue collections across the country have also been destroyed. The current state of the Bamiyan statues, which were carved into a cliff, has yet to be verified, although the difference between Taliban accounts is only whether all traces have been eradicated or some pieces of rock remain. The statues, once Afghanistan's best-known historic treasure, date from an era nearly 2,000 years ago, when the country, at the heart of trade routes across Asia, was a centre of Buddhist civilisation.