The Buddhas Of Bamiyan.

Koh-I-Babu Grandfather Mountain casts its gentle shadow over everything. Both man and stone his children. The Buddhas of Bamiyan guard the valley as they have done for 14 centuries gazing through time beyond into eternity. But nothing lasts for ever not even eternity. I laugh to find there is a relic of the finger of the Buddha hastily scraped out of his funeral pyre this human need to hold all that is passing. This of all faiths pointing out the impermanence of things clinging to the Buddha’s finger. Now the kohl-eyed Taliban reduce the giant guardians to nothing giving the world’s press a front seat as eternity is destroyed. The statues coming alive in their very death burning into men’s minds living for ever in their destruction. Now the Buddha’s burning finger points out that nothing lasts forever.