Plight of Buddhist art
Swaminathan Madhuresan
smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Thu Mar 1 21:23:49 UTC 2001
>Send a letter expressing your opinion of the Taliban's proposed
>destruction of the Baniyan Buddhas and other artifacts to:
>
>
>Mullah Rahmatullah Kakayzada Khybanay Shamsheer
>Consul-General
>Consulate of the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
>Karachi Defence Housing Association (D.H.A.)
>Bungalow No. 33
>Street No. 27
>District 11, Phase V (five)
>Karachi
>PAKISTAN
>
>
>John C. Huntington
All folks of South Asia have lost irreplaceable treasures today.
Indeed lovers of Indic art incl. art historians Huntingtons (John/Susan)
will mark this as sad.
May be a good website devoted to Afghan art and urging to save
what is left will help.
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