Researchers find sutra in rubble of Bamiyan Buddhas

Researchers find sutra in rubble of Bamiyan Buddhas

KABUL, Afghanistan - Photo released by the International Council on Monuments and Sites shows fragments of a Buddhist sutra that has been found in the rubble of one of the giant Buddhas at Bamiyan destroyed by the country's former Taliban regime. (Kyodo)

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