Buddhist caves found west of Afghanistan's Bamiyan

Buddhist caves found west of Afghanistan's Bamiyan

YAKAWLANG, Afghanistan - Takashi Irisawa, professor of Japan's Ryukoku University, checks one of Buddhist caves his team has found in a valley near Yakawlang, some 100 kilometers west of the Bamiyan archeological site on Oct. 14. Bamiyan had been considered to mark the western edge of the spread of Buddhist culture in pre-Islamic Afghanistan, but the discovery of the caves, believed to have been built around the eighth century, suggests there was a large-scale Buddhist cultural area west of Bamiyan. (Kyodo)

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