http://www.metafilter.com/tags/buddhas Posts tagged with 'buddhas' at MetaFilter. Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:51:40 -0800 Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:51:40 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/6303/ <a href="http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/interview/0,9754,101547,00.html">'I Feel A Great, Personal Loss'</a> <i>Conservationist Rakhaldas Sengupta spent nine years restoring the world's tallest Buddha statues...</i> <br> This has been covered by MeFi before but Sengupta has a perspective on the statues that hasn't come to light yet. To think that the Taleban is destroying these 1700 year old statues breaks my heart. I hope I never understand the reasoning of religious zealots. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6303 Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:51:40 -0800 afghanistan archaeology bamiyan buddha buddhas statues taliban time gen http://www.metafilter.com/6113/ <a href="http://news.iwon.com/home/news/news_article/0,11746,103521|world|03-01-2001::09:34|reuters,00.html">All your cultural treasures are belong to us!</a> At least in <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/07/FFXDZFFGUIC.html">China</a> it was the <i>accidental</i> kind of stupidity... tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6113 Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:39:11 -0800 bamyan brokenlink buddhas china culture destruction religion taliban rushmc