Sotheby has postponed Buddhist gems auctions called India’s ‘colonial exploitation’

Buddhist gems set this week that will not be mixed with the highest bidder this week this week mixed with the creamy remains.

After Sotheby’s, Buddhist, art scientists and the Indian government were removed from the government, and postpone the planned auction of Pidanahwa after the accused of the “durable colonial exploitation”.

The auction house, 127 years ago, 127 years ago in India postponed the sale of three generations of the British landowner, three generations.

“This will allow discussions between the parties and expect any update to share the necessary way.”

Naman Ahuja, a professor of Buddhist art at the University of New Delhi Nehru University, should not make the stones “cultural property of the world.”

“It is very courage to hear the holy prices be commodities,” he said. Quite Nile Kaksal on Tuesday before the announcement of Sotheby.

“We did not know that the objects associated with the original chamber of Buddha – you know that the Haji and the Buddan family can actually be treated in this way.”

‘Extraordinary things’

Amethysts, cranberries, pearls, garnets and gold and more include those who enter the PeeDan and Beads for the collection. Sotheby calls “kaleidoscopic valuables” from “unparalleled religious, archeological and historical importance.”

At this point, Ahuja and Sotheby’s agree.

“They are extraordinary things,” Ahuja said in the Museum of Singapore and Metropolitan Museum in New York as a secret joke, as seen in the Museum of Asia Civilizations. “They’re pretty nice to see.”

However, before demonstrating in museums or preparing for auction, Siddhartha Gautaman, who is usually named as the Buddha and mixed with thousands of years, was mixed with ash and bone parts.

By 1898 there, William Claxton Peppé, who is a British Property Manager, remained when they dig them.

According to the Guardian newspaperBritish crown Peppé’s 1878 Indian Treasure Trove claimed to be found under the law. Count and ashes Buddhist monarch Chulalongkorn, most of the 1,500 stones went to the Kolkati Museum in Kolkat.

However, one-fifth of the remaining stones, Sotheby’s “duplicates” described as “duplicates” and with their heirs – closest to La based film director and manufacturer Chris Peppé.

CBC, Sotheby and his agent reached Peppe for comments, but did not hear back.

In an article on Sotheby’s websitePeppé describes the relationship with his family’s relationship as one of the “guardianship”.

“From time to time, my gem relics, my cousins ​​and I have tried to be available to visualize the public (an ideal Buddhist community) to check any value,” he said.

Over the past six years, the stones are shown in the museums of the world. He went forward, “He wants the power of these stones to everyone, the Buddhist or the power of the lack of absence.”

“I hope that because Pirahwa GEM ends our tricks, they will truly go to the one who evaluates them. Many people, many people, more than 2,000 years of Buddhists and Buddha and Buddha and his teachings will contact Buddhists.”

India gives legal notice

Peppé told BBC News His and his family forgiven the temples and museums, “they present different problems in closer examinations,” he said.

“The auction seems to be the fairest and most transparent way to transmit these relatives to Buddhists and Sotheby is sure to achieve this,” he said.

The Indian government believes that the best thing to do with stones will give them back.

The Ministry of Culture of the country has warned Peppé and Sotheby to Hong Kong to suspend the auction and repeats relatives and will apologize for public.

Notification, Placed fully in InstagramPeppeni and Sotheby’s judiciary in front of both India and international law, the trial of the trials against them, “the trial”

This threat asked if he was adequate revoke Auction, Ahuja said: “It was.”

“An ethical and right thing Sotheby’s family and others, the other, which are the inseparable gift of the world, would be the safety of those in their dissociation, safe control and all Buddhists.”

The ministry was postponed on Facebook on Wednesday after the auction intervention.