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WORLD NEWS BUDDHAS 1 MCT

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The empty chamber in Bamiyan's mountainside once held a 1,500 year-old, 174-foot tall male Buddha figure. (Warren P. Strobel/MCT) (WARREN P. STROBEL/MCT)

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