{"id":71445,"date":"2025-05-02T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/02\/auction-of-ancient-indian-gems-imbued-with-living-presence-of-buddha-condemned"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:00:02","slug":"auction-of-ancient-indian-gems-imbued-with-presence-of-buddha-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71445","title":{"rendered":"Auction of ancient Indian gems \u2018imbued with presence of Buddha\u2019 condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha\u2019s remains, denounced as perpetuating colonial violence<\/p>\n<p>Buddhist academics and monastic leaders have condemned an auction of ancient Indian gem relics which they said were widely considered to be imbued with the presence of the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2025\/the-piprahwa-gems-of-the-historical-buddha\/the-piprahwa-gems-of-the-historical-buddha-mauryan\">The auction of the Piprahwa gems<\/a> will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby\u2019s listing describes them as being \u201cof unparalleled religious, archaeological and historical importance\u201d and many Buddhists <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2025\/04\/Selling-the-Buddhas-Relics-Today-final-3.pdf\">considered them to be corporeal remains<\/a>, which had been desecrated by a British colonial landowner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/02\/auction-of-ancient-indian-gems-imbued-with-living-presence-of-buddha-condemned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha\u2019s remains, denounced as perpetuating colonial violenceBuddhist academics and monastic leaders have condemned an auction of ancient Indian gem relics which they said were widely conside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,211,749,71,514,48,371,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-buddhism","category-colonialism","category-culture","category-heritage","category-hong-kong","category-religion","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71446,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71445\/revisions\/71446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}