#bamiyan

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Giant Buddha, Bamiyan, Afghanistan. (c) 1931

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Lamb Kebab, Qaboli Palaw, Beans, Eggplant, Soup, Salad, and Bread. Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Taken on September 25, 2022

[victusinveritas]

Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1974 or so.

[turqmu]

تو بامیان منی.

[philoursmars]

Il y a une petite quinzaine, je suis allé avec Julien et Katie, au Louvre-Lens. Ici, alternés, la sortie de l'expo permanente, "la Galerie du Temps" avec cette photo panoramique de Bamiyan, hélas sans ses bouddhas, et les jardins riches en euphorbes.

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[brieucgwalder]

Time Patrol. Afghanistan 1953

Kabul, 1953. Long before the many wars. My father Cyril was Air France General Manager in Pakistan. Karachi was the road to the Far East. Paris sent him to Kabul to investigate the possibility of opening a line to Afghanistan. My parents had lived in Pakistan for 6 years already. They spoke Urdu fluently. He knew the region. He took my mother’s 8mm camera. Shot a film which my mother edited, and…

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Buddhas of Bamiyan

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

33:72 Surely We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to be unfaithful to it and feared from it, and man has turned unfaithful to it. Surely he is ever unjust, ignorant —

The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters himself and minds the law. - Gautama Buddha

[saiyukiitaliaandinternational]

Saiyuki: origini parte 2

Come detto nel post precedente,l'opera di Wu Cheng'en è ispirata a sua volta ad un altro testo le Testimonianze sulle regioni occidentali del Grande Tang. Il libro venne scritto nel 646 d.C. da Bianji un discepolo di Xuanzang e descrive il viaggio del giovane Xuanzang da Chang'an (oggi Xi'an) verso l'Asia Centrale e forse anche in Asia meridionale tra il 629 e il 645 d.C. Il libro è costituito da 120.000 caratteri cinesi ed è suddiviso in 12 volumi nei quali è descritta la geografia, le terre, il clima, i trasporti marittimi, i prodotti locali,le persone, la lingua, la storia, gli usi e costumi, la religione, la cultura, la politica e via dicendo dei territori occidentali quali Xinjiang, Persia, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka ecc. (ho messo i nomi odierni di alcuni dei territori occidentali visto che Tajikistan, Uzbekistan non esistevano all'epoca). L'opera ha un grande valore storico e archeologico,ad esempio fornisce informazioni sul fatto che a quel tempo esisteva già una cultura buddhista in Afghanistan nonché la prima testimonianza letteraria dell'esistenza dei Buddha di Bamiyan:Buddha di Bamiyan:

foto risalente al 1931 dal sito: http://www.uspolicyinabigworld.com/2009/10/29/us-diplomat-delivers-odd-resignation-in-afghanistan/bamiyan_buddha/

L'opera è importante anche per la storia indiana tant'è che gli archeologi lo usano per riempire alcuni vuoti della storia indiana. Il libro è noto anche per avere un'esatta descrizione delle distanze e dei luoghi dei diversi posti ed è servito anche come linea guida per lo scavo di molti importanti siti quali Rajagrha,il tempio a Sarnath,Ajanta,le rovine del monastero di Nalanda nel Bihar e le rovine di Vasu Bihar dell'antica città di Pundra.

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The terrain outside of Bamiyan quickly becomes an empty, monochromatic dreamscape of desert and mountain when suddenly a bend in the rough road reveals the bluest waters you have ever seen... This is Band-E Amir, a series of mineral-rich lakes designated as the first national park in Afghanistan. Taken on September 26, 2022

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The 6th century Buddha of Bamiyan in Afghanistan Before the Taliban blasted it into rubble.

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Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 2002 - by Steve McCurry (1950), American

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by Matti Friedman

The little book may have been kept by a Jewish family in Bamiyan, the curator suggested, with different people adding new texts as the years passed. The hands of at least five scribes are evident in the pages. They were influenced by ideas and writing coming from both major Jewish centers of the time—Babylon, which is modern-day Iraq, and the Land of Israel, where Jewish sovereignty had been lost seven centuries before and whose people were now under Islamic rule.

The previously unknown poem shows the influence of a familiar biblical text, the erotic Song of Songs, according to Professor Shulamit Elizur of the Hebrew University, the member of the research team in charge of the poem’s analysis.  But it also shows the impact of an esoteric Jewish book that wasn’t part of the Bible, known as the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel. This book is thought to have originated in the early 600s, when a brutal war between Byzantium and the Sasanian empire of Persia generated desperate messianic hopes among many Jews. Whoever wrote the poem in the Afghan prayer book had clearly read the Apocalypse, Elizur said—giving us a glimpse of a Jewish spiritual world both familiar and foreign to the coreligionists of the Bamiyan Jews in our own times, 1,300 years later. The previously unknown poem shows the influence of a familiar biblical text, the erotic Song of Songs, according to Professor Shulamit Elizur of the Hebrew University. (Museum of the Bible)

Chapters of the book’s journey from Afghanistan to Washington are unclear—some because they’re simply unknown even to the experts, and others because that’s the way the people in the murky manuscript market often prefer it.  

When the book was discovered by the Hazara militiaman, according to Hepler, the tribesmen didn’t know exactly what it was but understood it was Jewish and assumed it was sacred. The local leader had it wrapped in cloth and preserved in a special box. At one point in the late 1990s, it seems to have been offered unsuccessfully for sale in Dallas, Texas, though it’s unclear if the book itself actually left Afghanistan at the time. 

After the al-Qaeda attacks of 9/11 triggered the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the book disappeared for about a decade. In 2012 it resurfaced in London, where it was photographed by the collector and dealer Lenny Wolfe. 

Any story about Afghan manuscripts ends up leading to Wolfe, an Israeli born in Glasgow, Scotland. I went to see him at his office in Jerusalem, an Ottoman-era basement where the tables and couches are cluttered with ancient Greek flasks and Hebrew coins minted in the Jewish revolt against Rome in the 130s CE. It was Wolfe who helped facilitate the sale of the larger Afghan collection to Israel’s National Library. “The Afghan documents are fascinating,” he told me, “because they give us a window into Jewish life on the very edge of the Jewish world, on the border with China.” 

When Wolfe encountered the little prayer book, he told me it had already been on the London market for several years without finding a buyer. In 2012, the year he photographed the book, he said it was offered to him at a price of $120,000 by two sellers, one Arab and the other Persian. But the Israeli institution he hoped would buy the book turned it down, he told me, so the sale never happened. Not long afterwards, according to his account, he heard that buyers representing the Green family had paid $2.5 million. When I asked what explained the difference in price, he answered, “greed,” and wouldn’t say more. (Hepler of the Museum of the Bible wouldn’t divulge the purchase price or the estimated value of the manuscript, but said Wolfe’s figure was “wrong.”)

The collection amassed by the Green family eventually became the Museum of the Bible, which opened in Washington in 2017. The museum has been sensitive to criticism related to the provenance of its artifacts since a scandal erupted involving thousands of antiquities that turned out to have been looted or improperly acquired in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. The museum’s founder, Steve Green, has said he first began collecting as an enthusiast, not an expert, and was taken in by some of the dubious characters who populate the antiquities market. “I trusted the wrong people to guide me, and unwittingly dealt with unscrupulous dealers in those early years,” he said after a federal investigation. In March 2020 the museum agreed to repatriate 11,000 artifacts to Iraq and Egypt.