<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Persian: بت‌های باميان--bott - hâye Bāmiyān) were 6th - century monumental statues of Gautam Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 kilometres (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an elevation of 2,500 metres (8,200 ft). Built in 507 CE (smaller) and 554 CE (larger), the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art . They were respectively 35 and 53 m (115 and 174 ft) tall . </P> <P> The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco . This coating, practically all of which wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands, and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colors . </P>

Buddha's of bamiyan was located in which country