Buddha Rebuilding in Swat

[Manzareh]

Buddha Rebuilding in Pakistan's Swat Valley - YouTube

[Karachi]

Unfortunately archeology/history is a subject which not a lot of people are interested in Pakistan, I visited New York's museum in 2009 and there were like 5000 items on display from civilizations in pakistan, especially the Swat/Gandhara areas

[waterbear_waterbear]

Can a Swat person convert to Buddhism?

[waterbear_waterbear]

Harun Yahya has remained critical with Buddhism, as it is with many some Christian and Muslim scholars who despise Buddhism's atheistic doctrine.

[Khostai]

Why is Talibans not blowing this thing up like they did in Afghanistan????

[Adam]

Cos it wouldn't look as cool

[Manzareh]

Well in Swat the Talibans just break the heads off the statues but leave the bodies for some reason.

[Karachi]

^ it depends what type of desire it is, evil desire or a good desire. you have to put things in context when talking about religions

[Talal]

They apparently found something big in swabi too


Buddhist stupas found in Aziz Dheri

[Manzareh]

I got loads of old coins they look ancient, I found them on a mountain called Ghwandai in Swat, not sure if they are worth anything though.

[kiran]

I didnt know buddhism existed in swat.

[Karachi]

I got loads of old coins they look ancient, I found them on a mountain called Ghwandai in Swat, not sure if they are worth anything though.

probably worth a lot, try selling them, but to the right buyers

[Manzareh]

probably worth a lot, try selling them, but to the right buyers

There a lot of Buddhist relics in Swat, some of coins I found were even older than Buddhist ones they seem to be from the hephthalite (white huns) era.. but yeah your right, I brought them back in '09 need to show them to an expert. Where are you from?

[mayan]

Swat

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