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--part1_bf.c1a3fb2.27d28abf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's a real downer to see all those news reports of the Taliban deliberately destroying major examples of Buddhist sculpture, and the world not able to lift a finger. While you're still able to do so, get a look at those two large statues of the Buddha. In Cambodia, the temple of Angkor Wat was damaged in the fighting, but at least that wasn't deliberate. Buddhism produced one of the world's great sculpture traditions, every bit as important as the Greeks. Of course we don't have a heck of a lot of Classical Greek free-standing statuary surviving either, especially the marble carvings. Over the centuries, a lot of the marble stauary was broken up to make plaster, and the bronze statuary was melted to make cannonballs. pat --part1_bf.c1a3fb2.27d28abf_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial Narrow" LANG="0"><B>It's a real downer to see all those news reports of the Taliban deliberately <BR>destroying major examples of Buddhist sculpture, and the world not able to <BR>lift a finger. While you're still able to do so, get a look at those two <BR>large statues of the Buddha. <BR> <BR>In Cambodia, the temple of Angkor Wat was damaged in the fighting, but at <BR>least that wasn't deliberate. <BR> <BR>Buddhism produced one of the world's great sculpture traditions, every bit as <BR>important as the Greeks. Of course we don't have a heck of a lot of Classical <BR>Greek free-standing statuary surviving either, especially the marble <BR>carvings. Over the centuries, a lot of the marble stauary was broken up to <BR>make plaster, and the bronze statuary was melted to make cannonballs. <BR> <BR>pat <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR></B></FONT></HTML> --part1_bf.c1a3fb2.27d28abf_boundary--