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Episode 7: The Bamiyan Buddhas [& Extras]

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Sources and Links:

  • Morgan, Llewelyn. The Buddhas of Bamiyan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
  • The 2005 documentary The Giant Buddhas by Christian Frei.
    • Not available through any streaming services. Ask your local library if they can get you a copy!
  • “The Bamiyan Buddhas,” an essay by Dr. Melody Rod-ari for Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization that provides excellent content for those who wish to learn more about a variety of subjects, including art history.
  • “The Lost Buddhas of Bamiyan,” an episode of Journeys to the Ends of the Earth, a documentary series by photojournalist David Adams.
  • “The man who helped blow up the Bamiyan Buddhas,” a BBC World News article by Nasir Behzad and Daud Qarizadah recounting the experience of Mirza Hussain, a Hazara man who was forced to aid the Taliban in the destruction of the Buddhas.
  • Additional sources:

    • Bosco, David. “Waking the Buddha.” Archaeology 58, no. 1 (2005): 18-23.

    • Campion, Kristy. “Blast through the Past: Terrorist Attacks on Art and Antiquities as a Reconquest of the Modern Jihadi Identity.” Perspectives on Terrorism 11, no. 1 (2017): 26-39.

    • Elias, Jamal J. “(Un) Making Idolatry: From Mecca to Bamiyan.” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 4, no. 2 (2007): 12-29.

    • Flood, Finbarr Barry. “Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum.” The Art Bulletin 84, no. 4 (2002): 641-59.

    • Hensman, Rohini. “Religious Sentiment and National Sovereignty: Resisting Talibanisation.” Economic and Political Weekly 36, no. 23 (2001): 2031-033.

    • Janowski, James. “Bringing Back Bamiyan’s Buddhas.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 28, no. 1 (2011): 44-64.

Related Images:

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A wide view of Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. [Image source: Afghan Embassy in London]
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Western Bamiyan Buddha (Vairocana?), pre-2001 [Image credit: Afghan Embassy in London]
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Empty niche of the Western Bamiyan Buddha (Vairocana?), post-2001 [Image credit: Afghan Embassy in London]
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Before, During, and After [Image credit: Meros]
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Eastern Bamiyan Buddha (Saykamuni?), 1974 [Image credit: Dr. Volker Thewalt]
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Detail of Eastern Bamiyan Buddha (Sakyamuni?), 1975 [Image credit: Pierre Le Bigot]
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1958 photograph of a German construction worker and his VW Beetle beneath the feet of the Western Bamiyan Buddha (Vairocana?) [Image credit: Edmund Melzl, reproduced in Morgan, pg. 14]
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Artist’s rendering of possible coloration of the Bamiyan Buddhas [Image credit: design by Arnold Metzinger, sourced from Science Mag]
 

Gus Content:

Gus above the Sea and Fog

Gussy Above the Sea
Original: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea and Fog, 1817, in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

 

Gus Rides the Wave

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Original: Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave at Kanagawa from Hokusai’s Series of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1830-32, a woodblock print with impressions in various collections. For an example, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY.
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Original: Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1778, in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

 

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