{"id":71500,"date":"2025-05-06T05:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/05\/india-tries-to-halt-auction-of-piprahwa-gems-found-with-buddhas-remains"},"modified":"2025-05-07T02:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:31:32","slug":"india-tries-to-halt-auction-of-piprahwa-gems-found-with-buddhas-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71500","title":{"rendered":"India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha\u2019s remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of sacred relics buried in third-century BC<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has issued a legal notice to halt the \u201cunethical\u201d auction of ancient gem relics, which it said should be treated as the sacred body of the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>Its Ministry of Culture said the <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\">auction of the Piprahwa gems<\/a> in Hong Kong this week \u201cviolates Indian and international laws, as well as United Nations conventions\u201d, and demanded their repatriation to India \u201cfor preservation and religious veneration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/05\/india-tries-to-halt-auction-of-piprahwa-gems-found-with-buddhas-remains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of sacred relics buried in third-century BCThe Indian government has issued a legal notice to halt the \u201cunethical\u201d auction of ancient gem relics, which it said should be treat&#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":[211,749,48,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-colonialism","category-hong-kong","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/71500","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=71500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500\/revisions\/71520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}