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Ancient Traveler’s Accounts

Tarzi says he learned from his restoration work in the 1970s that the descriptions of the two standing Buddhas provided by Xuanzang’s 1,400-year-old journal were extremely accurate. So accurate, in fact, that he couldn’t help wondering all these years about Xuanzang’s descriptions of a giant reclining Buddha nearby.

“I am searching now for a Buddha that I think is about 300 meters long and was built in a sleeping or lying position — [originally within a very large temple complex]. We have been able to locate [what we think is] the right temple, and excavations are continuing. This is not a small compound. So we have not been able to finish our excavations even within a year or two. We need to be patient and do this the right way,” Tarzi says.

“The temple is about 1.5 kilometers east of the ancient royal city of Bamiyan. That temple was discovered by my archaeological team. We are now studying the travel journal of a Chinese tourist from the year 632 A.D. to see if descriptions of a third giant Bamiyan Buddha are accurate.