HONG KONG – Tens of thousands of people lined up Thursday to see one of Buddha’s fingers – on loan from China for 10 days – and although they were herded past in a hurry, many said the relic offered ...

HONG KONG -- Tens of thousands of people lined up Thursday to see one of Buddha's fingers -- on loan from China for 10 days -- and although they were herded past in a hurry, many said the relic ...

A chartered plane carrying the sacred finger bone relic of Sakyamuni Buddha took off from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Tuesday morning for a 10-day ...

New Delhi, May 5 (PTI) Days before going under the hammer at Sotheby's Hong Kong, India has stepped in to halt the auction of a portion of the sacred Buddhist relics that were excavated in the ...

India has demanded the immediate suspension of an auction in Hong Kong featuring a portion of Buddhist relics excavated over a century ago, calling the sale illegal and unethical. The relics, listed ...

HONG KONG (AP) -- Beijing is lending Hong Kong one of the Buddha's fingers for public display, but critics belittled the move Tuesday as a political gesture to soothe anger over China's recent ...

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India has recovered the priceless Piprahwa gems, believed to be linked to the relics of Lord Buddha, from Hong Kong. These ancient and sacred gems were about to be auctioned for $100 million, but ...

Sotheby’s is honoured to present the Piprahwa gems, appearing for the first time in Hong Kong. The 1898 discovery of these gems by William Claxton Peppé at Piprahwa in northern India — where they were ...