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Afghan Buddha in virtual return on anniversary of destruction by Taliban

Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan's rugged central highlands, one of the country's famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return on March 9 as a three-dimensional projection filled the alcove that hosted the statue for centuries.
'No progress on world's second tallest Buddha statue project in Guj'

The government had proposed to develop Dev Ni Mori in Sabarkantha district into an "international Buddhist destination" with "the second tallest statue of Buddha (108 metre) in the world after the Spring Temple statue in China (153 metre).

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Buddha Statue

Afghan Buddha in virtual return on anniversary of destruction by Taliban

'No progress on world's second tallest Buddha statue project in Guj'