[miss marmelstein]

An article like this only reaffirms my belief in the superiority of Western culture (with a tip of the hat to the Japanese, lol!)

[j-damn]

*An article like this only reaffirms my belief in the superiority of Western culture (with a tip of the hat to the Japanese, lol!)*

If only the West had given a damn enough to bomb the Talib after they destroyed these statues in the first place, there would have been no 9/11 attacks.

[rmlew]

Western Culture is involved. Alexand the Great conquered Afghanistan and created towns there. The most famous is Kandahar, formerly Iskandaria / Alexandria. Central Asian Buddhism, and from it Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, were influenced by a Greek mythology and iconography.

Greco-Buddhist art
Greco-Buddhism
I almost fell out of my seat once, when a historian pointed out the iconographic similarities of the Japanese bhodisatva Shukongōshin to Hercules.