Culture
SAARC Cultural
Capital
Timeline: Cultural
capitals of SAARC
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2001
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Taliban
blow up Buddha’s two ancient statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
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2015
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Bamiyan
will becomes SAARC Cultural Capital (from April 2015)
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2016
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Dhaka
will become SAARC Cultural Capital
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About Bamiyan:
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Bamiyan
is the valley between Hindukush and Koh-i-baba mountain ranges.
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It
is located on ancient silk route, and part of Kushana empire (till 1st century
AD), then under saffarids and Ghazani (in 11th century AD)
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Bamiyan
was the Capital of Huns in 5th AD and Cultural city of Hazara ethnic people.
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Notable
sites at Bamiyan are: Buddha cliffs, caves of monks and shar-i-gholghola (city
of sighs)
Buddha’s Cliff
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Monks’ Caves
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There were 3 Buddha’s statues engraved in
the cliff (6th century AD)
Style: Gandhar school.
One of them was world’s tallest standing
statue of Buddha.
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Located behind those statues.
The world’s earliest oil paintings, Buddhist
statues and manuscripts found here.
Taliban used these caves to store their
weapons.
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