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For an aspiring tourist mecca, the Oriental Buddha Kingdom Theme Park in the lush mountains of Leshan is doing a pretty woeful job. Its main attraction, a 37-meter replica of one of the famed Bamiyan buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is mysteriously covered by a huge cloth...
As it molders under its cloth cover, China's Bamiyan buddha seems almost as cursed as its Afghan predecessor. But the reasons for its condition are peculiarly Chinese. Conceived of by the grandly named Sichuan Oriental Buddha Kingdom Co., the Bamiyan replica was to have been the prime exhibit in...
As China races into the modern era, its spectacular cultural heritage is often the first casualty of the nation's fascination with all things shiny and new. Many of the Middle Kingdom's historical artifacts were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, when frenzied Red Guards chopped the heads off ancient...
Ironically, the man who conceived of the Bamiyan replica, Oriental Buddha's chairman Liang Enming, was once a vice manager of Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau, charged with protecting the very tombs he has allegedly wrecked. In the mid-'90s, Liang?whose handlers said he wasn't available to answer...
Another key player in the tourist renaissance of Sri Lanka is Hong Kong publisher Geoffrey Dobbs. He has restored two historic mansions in Galle: the Sun House and the Dutch House, which offer the most luxurious colonial accommodation to be found anywhere on the island. He also rents out Taprobane...