"Bamiyan was stormed by Muslims many times. All these images and paintings were destroyed. The images suffered much da…"

"While the Ottomans moved into South-East Europe, the Moghul invasion of India destroyed much of Hindu and Buddhist ci…"

"But who cut the Bamian, still more colossal, statues, the tallest and the most gigantic in the whole world, for Barth…"

"You know, when I despair, I don't always have before my eyes the apocalyptic scenes of September 11. ... Often with t…"

"My heart is also tightening for the way in which they have killed them [the Buddhas of Bamiyan]... They have not acte…"

"I did not want to destroy the Bamiyan Buddha. In fact, some foreigners came to me and said they would like to conduct…"

"The princes of Bamiyan were converted to Islam probably during the time of Abbasid dynasty, either in the ron of al-M…"

"We now realize that the destruction of the Bamian Buddhas itself was a loud warning signal to the world of far greate…"

"The breaking of statues is an Islamic order and I have given this decision in the light of a fatwa of the ulema (cler…"

"For years, ever since it was first published, the Bardo Thodol has been my constant companion, and to it I owe not on…"