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Bring Back the Buddha
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Following the wanton destruction of a unique heritage site by the Taliban, international efforts and proposals to restore the over-sized standing Buddhas of Bamiyan have not been in short supply. After such a drastic turn of events, would any restoration effort do justice to the violent past of the site? Or would an empty niche be the more "authentic" and evocative approach?
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More information on the digital reconstruction of the Buddhas could be found on the web-site of Prof. Armin Gruen, a professor of photogrammetry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/bamiyan/
Various papers and presentation on the subject can also be downloaded from:
http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/bamiyan/pub/index.html