Buddha’s holy jewelry passes to auction

On Wednesday, the cache of the bright jewelry related to the deadly residues of the Buddha, which is one of the most amazing archeological finds of the modern times, will go under the hammer in Sotheby in Hong Kong.

In 1898, these relatives from a century from a dusty mound in northern India to northern India, entered under a special British collection, were mainly ungoled.

Now, as stones are preparing to leave the arrest of goalkeepers, they are not only the appetite of collectors, but also concern.

About 1800 pearls, rubies, topaz, sapphires and patterned golden straps, for the first time in India, they glow deep inside a brick camera in India.

Their discovery was reflected through the world of bone, together with a written URN, as belonging to Buddha himself – the world of archeology. Sotheby’s President of Asia and the world of Asia Nikolas Chow believes that this is “always among the most unusual archeological discoveries.”

When these kinds are still facing the gloss of the auction room, experts say a question of a question to the BBC is seriously: Is the sale of treasures that are so close to the holy past?

In 1898, a British Property Manager William Claxton Pepe was likely to be born of Buddha that he took a STUPA gas in southern Lumbini. About 2000 years ago written and opened satisfactions.

Historians agree to these relatives in a whole, which is inherited by the generation of Sakya tribes in Sakya. Bone relates to countries such as Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar have been distributed to countries continuing.

“Is it a treatable commodity that can be treated as a work of art to sell Buddha in the market?” Delhi-based art historian Naman Ahuja Miracles. “And since, how do the seller is allowed in accordance with the auction?

“Seller ‘Guardian I’d like to ask since it is called – On behalf of the guardian? Does the government allow these relatives to sell?”

Chris Peppesi, a great grandchild of William, has visited the best and transparent way to transparent these relatives to Buddhists in the BBC’s family, but all the options.

Julian King, Sotheby’s International Experitist and Sales President Himalayan Art, New York’s Auction House, said he was attracting the attention of the stones.

As with any important substances and collection offered in Sotheby, we have made necessary efforts to props and evidence and treasures, in accordance with our policy and treasury standards, real and evidence, legality and other considerations. “

Ashley Thompson, the University of London and Curator Conan Cheong, has more questions in both experts in Asian art. In a joint statement: “Other ethical questions raised from the sale are:” There are human remains? Need to make a decision to have a person’s remains or not?

The sale of non-compliance has caused concern among Buddhist leaders.

“The Buddha teaches us not to receive goods without permission,” the British Amal Abeyawardine Society, located in London, told the BBC. “Historical records, as Sakyamuni clan came out of the community of these relatives, was to keep these intervening in front of these administrators to perpetuate these stones.”

Chris Peppé has written Uncle jewelry came up with his cousin and two other cousins ​​and two others in 2013. It began to investigate their discoveries by his great grandfather.

Los Angeles based on television director and film editor, 1898 newspaper report – Reuters announced the remains of Buddha from the New York Tribune.

“India’s colonial in the Britain was a little source of cultural shame (and continues to be), but also among the treasury hunters who returned to the UK,” Chris Peppé writes.

He noted that the study reveals a lot about his fathers who had been fired like “a biased victory from a period of close to each other.”

“The first wife Willie Pepper learned that he had his first wife walk around India and loved his culture and loved his culture, he died of an unknown disease.

“And I knew that Stufa’s excavations were attempted to provide work for the tenant farmers who sacrificed the starvation from Willie Peppé from 1897.”

The technical diagram of the ramps and the heads of the ramps also wrote that he was a trained engineer who could not resist a project.

William Peppé gems, relatives and colonizers hand over to the colonial government: bone relics Siam (Rama V) went to the Buddhist king. Five religious Urn, a stone chest and other relatives were sent to the India Museum in Kolkata – then the Kalkutta Emperor Museum.

Only a small “part of a small” duplicate “allowed to keep in the Peppe family. (Sotheby’s notes Peppen was allowed to catch the discovery about five.)

Sources BBC Auction House considers original items of original items to allow original items to allow original articles to the original items “to allow the Indian government to Peppel.

Over the past six years, the stones, including in 2023, were shown in joint exhibitions, including one. The family of Pepps is also a Website For “share our research.”

Some scholars should never be accepted as a market goods.

“Sotheby’s auction, turns them into the objects sold, and removed them from a stuphole and called them ‘stones’ and’ stones’ and ‘interest objects’,’ Thompson and Cheong.

Chris Peppé told the BBC in all the monastery called the BBC “not to evaluate Bundish as a bold relay.”

“Several Buddhist academies in Western universities recently, find an academic construction that could be considered such as, this is an academician, which is not considered,” he said.

Peppé, the family’s relatives (relatives) looked at the temples and museums, and all presented different problems. ”

“Auction seems to be the fairest and most transparent way to pass these relatives to Buddhists and Sotheby is sure to achieve this.”

Some people also point out Koh-I-NoorThe English Eastern Indian company was seized and now part of the crown jewelry, as many Indians were stolen. Buddha’s grinding should be next?

“Repatriation, believe, rarely necessary,” he said. “Such rare and holy prices deserve the great attention of the government, which determines the unique and soil cultural history.”