Buddhism: A Reprieve for Mes Aynak

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A Reprieve for Mes Aynak Mar 12th 2013, 15:05 There is good news about Mes Aynak, the site of an ancient Buddhist community in Afghanistan. Last December it appeared that the site, about 25 miles southeast of Kabul, was about to be destroyed by copper mining. But the mining operation has been postponed, giving French and Afghan archeologists more time to document the site and save the artifacts buried there. Within the Mes Aynak site are the ruins of about half a dozen monasteries, filled with hundreds of statues of buddhas and bodhisattvas. The archeologists expect to have at least a few more months to remove artifacts in the area to be mined. For more on the ancient Buddhist civilization in Afghanistan and Pakistan, see "The Lost World of Buddhist Gandhara."

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