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by Pepe Escobar with permission and first posted at Asia Times
Solsol: Buddha of Bamiyan (Western), the larger statue. Note the human figure at the foot of the Buddha.
In the beginning, they were the Bamiyan Buddhas: the Western Buddha statue, 55 meters high, and the Eastern, 38 meters high, carved for decades since 550 A.D. from porous sandstone cliffs, the intricate details modeled in clay mixed with straw and coated with stucco.
Xuanzang, the legendary traveling monk of the early Tang dynasty who journeyed to India in search of Buddhist manuscripts, saw them in all their – colored – glory in the 7
th century.