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| The Great Buddha of Bāmiān was the world’s largest statue of Buddha, standing 55 m (180 ft) tall in Afghanistan’s Bāmiān Valley, before Taliban militants destroyed it with explosives in March 2001. The colossal statue and a smaller one of a seated Buddha nearby, also destroyed, were carved in about the 6th century by Buddhist monks. The statue had withstood centuries of erosion, although some of its features had been diminished by windstorms. | ||||||
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