The mystery surrounding the discovery of the Qingzhou Buddhas will no doubt continue to be debated.
Movers have crated the Ming dynasty furniture and sculpture and the Thai and Burmese Buddhas.
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Inside are vaulted galleries full of large sculptures: female forms, Buddhas, herds of sheep.
Bamiyan and the Buddhas remain firmly under the control of the forces of Hezb-i-Whadat.
The Old Mostar Bridge, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and now the Mausoleums of Timbuktu.
Gigantic gilded Buddhas lined the path, which I shared with 12-year-old monks laughing in their saffron robes.
"We are not doing them any favours if we make them into little Buddhas at home, " she said.
Money for the Buddhas is donated by the people, and the expanding skyline is the result of private-sector efforts.
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Today, the massive caves where the Buddhas once stood are huge, empty pockets carved into cliffs that dominate the countryside.
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Most importantly, reconstruction of the Buddhas is not seen as an immediate priority, especially in the light of Afghanistan's humanitarian needs.
We all remember the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan.
For 1, 500 years, the sandstone cliffs of afghanistan's Bamiyan valley encased two towering Buddhas peering sleepily from their caves onto patches of magnolia trees.
For a time they stored large amounts of ammunition in ancient caves built into the cliff at the feet of the largest of the two Buddhas.
Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant.
It is actually a huge museum with the largest collection of imperial treasures in the country, including the superb Dragon Throne the emperor sat on and Buddhas bedecked with almost every precious metal and gemstone imaginable.
It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.
Mes Aynak is a sprawling, mountainous, 9, 800-acre site studded with artifacts that archaeologists believe are as significant as the Bamiyan Buddhas, as well as the remains of civilizations that stretch back to the time of Alexander the Great.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday will begin three days of meetings in Paris about a long-range plan for preserving the snow-capped valley's cultural heritage and the remains of the Buddhas, which overlooked a Buddhist monastery.
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Rectangular niches of varying sizes carved into the surface contain ritual objects, Buddhas, deities, human and animal figures, and conic architectural shapes that may represent other temples (possibly the stele is a stone version of the painted maps depicting the Jain sites).
The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand gestures and various musical instruments while praying for the spiritual and moral well-being of the people, for purification and peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil spirits or to invoke the blessing of various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities and rinpoches.
Meanwhile, for something more modern, detour to the Lionel Wendt Centre to examine the contemporary art on display, then, come nightfall, see the light-dressed silhouettes of the Seema Malakaya on Beira Lake, two island pavilions designed in 1985, one filled with bronze Thai Buddhas and the other centred around a sacred bodhi tree.
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