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TIL an enormous Buddhist relic known as the Buddha's Begging Bowl, weighing 350 to 400 kg, is kept in the Kabul museum. When the Taliban captured Kabul, they destroyed all other Buddhist relics except the bowl, since at some point Quranic verses were inscribed on it.

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