Tajikistan is soon to unveil a 1,600-year-old giant, sleeping Buddha that the Soviets tried to hide. A TOL partner post from EurasiaNetby Ahmed RashidA 1,600-year-old statue of a sleeping Buddha–uncovered by archeologists from the former Soviet Union 35 years ago and never before seen by the outside world–will soon be on display in Dushanbe, the capital of the Central Asian […]
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