Sotheby’s has postponed the controversial sale of a dazzling cache of jewels linked to the remains of the Buddha after ...

This disapproval turned into a tidal wave on May 5, two days before the planned auction, with the intervention of the Indian ...

Delhi clashes with UK heirs over gems interred with bones and ashes of The Enlightened One for thousands of years ...

The auction includes relics excavated from the Piprahwa Stupa in 1898 by British ... s Siddharthnagar district, close to Lumbini, Nepal—the birthplace of Buddha.

William Claxton Peppé was an English estate manager who excavated a stupa at Piprahwa, just south of Lumbini, the believed birthplace of Buddha. He uncovered relics inscribed and consecrated ...

William Claxton Peppé was an English estate manager who excavated a stupa at Piprahwa, just south of Lumbini, the believed birthplace of Buddha. He uncovered relics inscribed and consecrated ...

The collection of “gem relics ... from Lumbini, the Buddha’s birthplace across the border in Nepal. His excavation of the site uncovered an ancient Buddhist stupa and a huge sandstone ...