Xinhua, November 13, 2006

Kabul, Afghanistan -- A Sutra was discovered in Afghanistan's central and historic Bamyan province, one of the centers of Buddhism civilization, a Kabul-based English newspaper reported Monday.

"Part of a Buddhism Sutra was found inside one of the two giant Buddhas," Daily Outlook writes.

Bearing the scripture of Sanskrit the fragment believed to be created in the seventh century, the paper added.

The fundamentalist Taliban movement dynamited the couple giant Buddhas, the 53-meter and 35-meter long sculptures in March 2001, months ahead of the regime's collapse.

Since the ousting of Taliban regime and world's attention towards Afghanistan to rebuild the war-torn nation, numerous of relics belonged to Buddhism have been discovered from the site of the giant Buddhas but it is the first time that such sutra is found there.