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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century[3] monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan, 130 kilometres (81xc2xa0mi) northwest of Kabul at an elevation of 2,500 metres (8,200xc2xa0ft).
Plans for the construction of the Spring Temple Buddha were announced soon after the blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas and China condemned the systematic destruction of the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan.
Because Afghanistan's Buddhist population no longer exists, and the statues were no longer worshipped, he added: "The government considers the Bamiyan statues as an example of a potential major source of income for Afghanistan from international visitors.
[37] Although India never recognised the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, New Delhi offered to arrange for the transfer of all the artifacts in question to India, "where they would be kept safely and preserved for all mankind".
Zemaryalai Tarzi, who was Afghanistan's chief archeologist in the 1970s, called it an "unacceptable decision.
As part of the international effort to rebuild Afghanistan after the Taliban war, the Japanese government and several other organizationsxe2x80x94among them the Afghanistan Institute in Bubendorf, Switzerland, along with the ETH in Zurichxe2x80x94have committed to rebuilding, perhaps by anastylosis, the two larger Buddhas.
In April 2002, Afghanistan's post-Taliban leader Hamid Karzai called the destruction a "national tragedy" and pledged the Buddhas to be rebuilt.
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In June 1971, the Japanese Empress Michiko visited the Buddhas during a royal state visit to Afghanistan with her husband.
Enclosed between the high mountains of the Hindu Kush in the central highlands of Afghanistan, the Bamiyan Valley opens out into a large basin bordered to the north by a long, high stretch of rocky cliffs.
The monuments and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley are public property, owned by the State of Afghanistan.