{"id":767,"date":"2019-07-19T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/?p=767"},"modified":"2019-07-19T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:02:54","slug":"afghanistans-destroyed-buddhas-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/afghanistans-destroyed-buddhas-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s destroyed Buddhas return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-769\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once destroyed by the Taliban, the Buddha statues live again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, they imposed an extremist version of Islamic law across the country. They tried to erase all traces of a rich pre-Islamic past and ordered the destruction of ancient statues, including the world&#8217;s tallest standing Buddhas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those memories are still alive for millions of Afghans. And now they have become present concerns, as the US and Afghan government negotiate with the Taliban for a deal that could see them return to power in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Shoaib Sharifi visited the National Museum in Kabul where a team are rebuilding some of the ancient Buddha sculptures that were destroyed by the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the BBC article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-47954950\/once-destroyed-by-the-taliban-the-buddha-statues-live-again?intlink_from_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Ftopics%2Fc8257vvy64et%2Fbuddhism&amp;link_location=live-reporting-map\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once destroyed by the Taliban, the Buddha statues live again When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anthrocervone.org\/worldreligions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}