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Bidding The Buddha Goodbye I came face to face with the several-stories tall, several centuries old standing Buddha carved into the bluff in Bahmian, Afghanistan, when I was thirteen. I was with my brother; my mother and my father, all of us having hiked the rocky, Utah-like terrain several miles from where we met our guide. My parents, both anthropologists since their twenties, knew the standin…