What are the stones in Pidan and India trying to stop the auctions? | Art and Culture News

The Indian government has condemned the auction of ancient Indian stones and gave a legal notice to suspend the sale of relatives who must be treated as a holy body of the Buddha.

The new Ministry of Culture has demanded the return of Pidanahwa stones in Hong Kong on Wednesday, “Indian and international laws and the United Nations” auction of Pidanahwa stones for protection and religious guarantee.

Legal writing, in 1898 in the North Indian property protects stones in the property of the family and maintained the stones in the family and maintained their family and protected the family as family heirlooms.

A letter placed in the Instagram account of the Ministry of Culture, the television director located in Los Angeles has disappeared the authority to sell blessings. Sotheby’s “Participation in continuous colonial exploitation” by holding auction.

The ministry does not believe that the stones should go to the bottom of the hammer by saying the “domestic religious and cultural heritage of the global Buddhist community.”

What are the stones of Pidan?

Pirahwa Gems returns from 200 to 200 to 200 to 200 Maurian Empire with 240-200. They are described as Sotheby’s “one of the most surprising archeological finds of the modern time” and “unparalleled religious, archeological and historical importance.”

Precious stones consist of thousands of pearls, rubies, topazes, sapphires and patterned gold and are kept in natural forms.

First of all, in India’s largest state, in modern Gundar, a Stupara-shaped funeral monument in Pipertar Pradesh in Uttar Pradesh was buried with a funeral monument.

Them about 480 BC.

British crown, William Peppe found 1878 Indian Treasury Trove and the Bourd and ash Buddhist Monarch was given to Siam Siam and the ashes.

The majority of 1800 stones are now gone to what is the Indian Museum in the Kolkat. However, Peppe was allowed to store one-fifth, some were described as “duplicate” by the British colonial leaders.

What about the dispute

In Sotheby in Hong Kong on Wednesday, 100 million Hong Kong dollars ($ 13 million) are expected to be sold. But sales raised eyebrows.

The commentators argued that the Pidan stones were the heritage of Buddha’s generation and the world in the world.

“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, spoke to the BBC. “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?” asked.

In turn, the Indian government called on Sotheby and Chris Peppe to stop the sale of stones, to apologize to Buddhists in the world and the full disclosure of relatives.

According to the letter of the Ministry of Culture, the India and Hong Kong will result in court proceedings through international organizations in the courts and “violations of cultural heritage law.”

The ministry added that this added that it would be “emphasize the disclosure of a public campaign to perpetuate the colonial injustice and (” religious religions “().

The sellers did not have the right to alienate the asset or to obtain the right to the right, … the extraordinary legacy of the security of the guardianship, but also the extraordinary humanity.

The letter would not be accepted as ‘samples’ of the Buddha’s “, but as a sacred body (eliminating the Buddha’s holy body” and the proposed Auction “Surrender of more than 500 million Buddhists worldwide.”

At the beginning of this year, Chris Peppe said he had donated the ancient stones of his family to BBC. At the same time, he said that “these relatives are the fairest and transparent way to transparent relatives to Buddhists.”

He also wrote an article on Sotheby: “I wanted the power of these stones to everyone, Buddhist or not.”

After the personal sale of this week, he said, “I hope that many people will be able to contact Buddhists with Buddhists and Buddha and his exercises with more than two thousand years.”

Is such auctions controvers in the past?

Museums in the West rarely have been forcibly forcibly forcibly to give up artifacts from the global south during the colonial rule. However, some of them returned the stolen items to their country under social pressure

For example, in 2022, the English soldiers were expelled from Benin to Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria from the Nigerian museum from the Horniman Museum of Nigeria.

That same year, he handed over 1,000 other products from two Benin’s bronze and museums to Nigeria. “It was wrong to pick up the bronze and was wrong to keep them,” he said.

However, samples of successful repatriations are more than personal auctions of stolen artifacts. In 2020, for example, Christie went forward Iqbo statues Nigerian museum officials said he was stolen during the country’s civil war in the 1960s.

Another high-profile situation, “Boy King” in the sale of the head of the 3,000-year-old quartz in Egypt, in the auction, auction UK In spite of a scream Egyptianclaimed that the fabric was illegally removed from the country.

Every year, countless antiques are sold by exclusive auction houses denying the historical patronage of many developing countries.