At the time, several parallelisms were made by conservative and liberal groups between the dismantling of the Pietà under the Socialist Party government of Zapatero and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan by the Taliban.

The most famous case is that of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan.

He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir.

Examples of this include the removal of Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads mural from the Rockefeller Center and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan statues by the Taliban government.

He anticipated the forcible division of kami and Buddhas ( shinbutsu bunri ) of 1868 ordering there the destruction of a thousand Buddhist temples and the construction of at least one shrine per village (.

International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban.

Photojournalist David Adams filmed the Buddhas prior to their destruction for an episode of Journeys to the Ends of the Earth, a travel series for the Discovery Channel.

Plans for the construction of the Spring Temple Buddha were announced soon after the blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas and China condemned the systematic destruction of the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan.

Abdul Salam Zaeef held that the destruction of the Buddhas was finally ordered by Abdul Wali, the Minister for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas despite protests from the international community has been described by Michael Falser, a heritage expert at the Center for Transcultural Studies in Germany, as an attack by the Taliban against the globalising concept of " cultural heritage ".

Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei made a 95-minute documentary titled The Giant Buddhas ( released in March 2006 ) on the statues, the international reactions to their destruction, and an overview of the controversy.

After the destruction of the Buddhas, 50 caves were revealed.

These included leaving the larger Western niche empty as a monument to the destruction of the Buddhas, a feasibility study into the rebuilding of the Eastern Buddha, and the construction of a central museum and several smaller site museums.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

He was formerly identified with an Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria ( 389 ), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

But the destruction of the armament by a storm decided the issue against him ; his southern Italian subjects successfully defied his religious edicts, and the Exarchate of Ravenna became effectively detached from the Empire.

Later, the development of the Hydrogen bomb became the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

As the U. S .- supplied Stinger surface-to-air missiles became available to them, the Afghans abandoned RPG attacks as the smart missiles proved especially efficient in the destruction of unarmed Soviet transport helicopters, such as Mi-17.

At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage.

Mittie's brother, Theodore's uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, was a United States Navy officer who became a Confederate Navy commander and secret agent in Britain who was most responsible for the destruction of the United States merchant fleet and procuring ships and supplies to run through the Union blockade.

Although initially one of several Jewish political movements offering alternative responses to assimilation and antisemitism, Zionism grew rapidly and became the dominant force in Jewish politics with the destruction of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe where these alternative movements were rooted.

He also kept a series of notebooks, and these observations became the source for Thoreau's late natural history writings, such as Autumnal Tints, The Succession of Trees, and Wild Apples, an essay lamenting the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.

Leptis became a provincial capital of the Eastern Roman Empire ( see Byzantine Empire ) but never recovered from the destruction wreaked upon it by the Berbers.

Its destruction has been attributed by some authors to, among others, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Catholic zealots during the purge of the Arian heresy, Not surprisingly, the Great Library became a symbol of knowledge itself, and its destruction was attributed to those who were portrayed as ignorant barbarians, often for purely political reasons.

This fear reached a crescendo with the 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis and the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that became the primary justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Thus Soviet state brutality and destruction of workers ' councils became identified with socialism and communism.

After the destruction of Salamis by Arab raids in 647, the existing capital of Cyprus, Nicosia became the capital of the island around 965, when Cyprus rejoined the Byzantine Empire.

After the destruction of the Two Trees by Melkor, she wept on their remains, cleansing the filth of Ungoliant, and helping to nurture the fruit and the flower that became the Sun and the Moon.

After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Pharisaic beliefs became the liturgical and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism, which ultimately produced the normative traditional Judaism which is the basis for all contemporary forms of Judaism except for Karaite Judaism.

It became a traditional place for lamenting the Temple's destruction, especially on Tisha B ' Av.

In a 1999 Starman storyline, Jack Knight became lost in time and space, landed on Krypton several years before its destruction, and met Jor-El as a young man.

Smallville depicts her as Clark's ( Tom Welling ) cousin, whose spacecraft became trapped in stasis until the events of the sixth season finale, when the destruction of the dam that the ship had landed nearby disrupted the stasis systems and allowed Kara to wake up.

This road probably fell into disuse after the destruction of Kaskaskia in 1812, and became more irrelevant after the State Capital was moved to Vandalia in 1820.

Saarbrücken became capital of the Saar territory established in 1920: under the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ), the Saar coal mines were made the exclusive property of France for a period of 15 years as compensation for the destruction of French mines during the First World War.

During his reign at this weight, the 2 round destruction of the legendary Roberto Durán, in which he became the first boxer to KO Durán, is seen as his pinnacle achievement, earning him his second Ring Magazine " Fighter of the Year " award in 1984.

At some point in time it seems likely that the church became the parish church, and it is possible that this is why it was spared destruction in 1540 when, as part of the reformation, the priory and all other associated buildings were destroyed.

Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era ; however, in the 17th century, some Jesuit writers began to assert their actual existence, including Cornelius a Lapide, who said of Woman, " her glance is that of the fabled basilisk, her voice a siren's voice — with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason — voice and sight alike deal destruction and death.

Hezekiah demonstrated his loyalty to the new regime by the destruction of an important symbol with Egyptian associations.

Crisis in the Roman world was marked by destruction caused by invasions and wars, but also by the testimony of the palaces of the Imperial officers and the first churches, the symbol of the spread of Christianity that held an important Council in Rimini in 359.

This building was a skyscraper that had become very much a symbol of modernity in Japan, and its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake came as a harrowing omen to many who saw it as reminiscent of the Tower of Babel.

Harry's poetry and journals often focused on the sun, a symbol to him of perfection, enthusiasm, freedom, heat, and destruction.

Upon its destruction it had stood for 427 years and had become a symbol of a shared cultural heritage and peaceful co-existence.

The mere destruction or disfigurement of a symbol's physical manifestation does not diminish or otherwise affect the symbol itself.

The oldest recorded Coat of arms of Buzău | seal of Buzău ( 1831 ), showing a Phoenix ( mythology ) | Phoenix, symbol of the city's repeated rebirth after destruction

Horapollo describes the rat as a symbol of destruction.

Harry developed a private mythology around the sun as a symbol for both life and death, creation and destruction.

In the Book of Revelation, the destruction of ' Babylon ', a city which seems to be a symbol of every kind of evil, is foretold.

Biographer Kenneth Silverman notes that the figure radiates ambivalence and it is not clear if it is a symbol of destruction or of protection.

It would later attain its power as such a potent symbol of the destruction of war on innocent lives.

In an outward symbol of this break from the past the town ’ s moat was filled in 1811, followed by the destruction of its fortifications between 1829 and 1840.

As with the similarly modified Los Angeles River, the San Gabriel is a notorious symbol of gross environmental degradation and destruction.

The destruction of " one of the least-loved and critically savaged games of all time " was seen an appropriate symbol for an award for excellence in gaming.

* Orodruin, location of the creation and destruction of the One Ring, is one of many representations of the symbol in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1937 – 49 ).

" ( A symbol of Han Dynasty is fire, so Chuofang was expressing her belief that Consort Zhao would lead to the destruction of the Han Dynasty.

Later, Fernando VII would approve the construction of a commemorative pyramid in Alcalá in honor of the victory, only to order its destruction in 1823, deriding it as a symbol of a " liberal ".

Although both the Pesach sacrifice and the chagigah were meat offerings, the chagigah is commemorated by an egg, a symbol of mourning ( as eggs are the first thing served to mourners after a funeral ), evoking the idea of mourning over the destruction of the Temple and our inability to offer any kind of sacrifices in honor of the Pesach holiday.

The symbol of Mula is a bunch of roots tied together ( reticulated roots ) or an ' elephant goad ' ( ankusha ) and the Deity associated with it is Niriti, god of dissolution and destruction.