Bamiyan Buddhas

In 2001, Talibans in Afghanistan destroyed two statues of Buddhas. These statues, believed to have been carved into the sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan in the third century A.D. and standing at 53 meters and 36 meters each, were then the tallest standing statues of Buddhas in the world. While Buddha lives on in the hearts of his followers, man-made statues are just man-made statues and when destroyed, proved the idea of impermanency of which Buddha taught.