{"id":23897,"date":"2025-05-07T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/india-seeks-to-block-auction-of-buddhist-religious-relics\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T06:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:05:57","slug":"india-seeks-to-block-auction-of-buddhist-religious-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/india-seeks-to-block-auction-of-buddhist-religious-relics\/","title":{"rendered":"India Seeks to Block Auction of Buddhist Religious Relics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The jewels are delicate, some just millimeters in length, arranged in intricate patterns of circles and lines. Taken from British-occupied India in 1898, the jewels were discovered alongside bone and ash, said to be the remains of Buddha. The collection is perhaps one of the holiest relics in contemporary religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, it is up for sale, igniting a legal battle between the government of India and Sotheby\u2019s, the international auction house set to sell the religious treasures in an auction. The artifacts are being sold on behalf of the English descendants of the explorer who dug them up more than 120 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, the Indian Ministry of Culture <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJRyLcfTyTN\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">issued a legal order<\/a>, saying the relics should be returned to India for \u201cpreservation and religious veneration.\u201d Sotheby\u2019s initially defended the sale but later announced that it would postpone the auction, originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday in Hong Kong. \u201cThis will allow for discussions between the parties,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The sale cuts to the heart of an uncomfortable question that has roiled post-imperial nations: How should priceless relics plundered generations ago from once-occupied territories be handled? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re in this movement that\u2019s long overdue, to rethink the status of culturally significant artwork,\u201d said Ashley Thompson, a professor of Southeast Asian art at the University of London. \u201cWho do they belong to? What are they worth? Can they even be considered as commodities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A host of countries have wrestled with such questions in recent years. Some American institutions have slowly begun returning relics <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/07\/31\/american-museum-natural-history-native-american-human-remains-repatriation\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to Indigenous tribes<\/a>. Dutch museums <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/netherlands-nigeria-benin-bronzes-art-restitution-9075dc135bc2a207f9b22e8762e620d1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">have returned colonial-era artifacts<\/a> to countries like Nigeria and Sri Lanka. Across Britain, museums have gradually been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-68789512\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">repatriating looted artifacts<\/a>, including some related to Buddhist burial traditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Buddha-related jewels for sale this week, known as the Piprahwa gems, have their own unique complications. They are not held by a museum or a state, but rather the family of William Claxton Pepp\u00e9, the English explorer who excavated the holy burial ground in 1898.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That discrepancy presents an ethical conundrum, said Naman Ahuja, an art history professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi who studies museum administration and repatriation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNoting the ethics of the situation and public sentiment, the British state did the right thing and returned relics in 1952,\u201d Mr. Ahuja said, referring to other repatriated Buddhist items that had been returned by England. \u201cBut individuals who occupied a colonial position were not held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to a description of the jewels on the Sotheby\u2019s website, Mr. Pepp\u00e9 discovered the artifacts while excavating land in Piprahwa, a village in northern India. Unearthed from a sacred burial ground known as a stupa, the collection was found with bone and ash remains long considered to be those of Buddha, who was believed to be buried in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the time, Mr. Pepp\u00e9 turned over much of his find to the British state, donating other parts to scholars and museums, including the Indian Museum in Kolkata. But he was permitted to keep some of the relics, which have been passed down for generations in his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chris Pepp\u00e9, one of three descendants who now possess the relics, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg2elg3zxyo\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC<\/a> that the family had explored donating the collection to various Buddhist stakeholders, but that doing so would have presented unspecified problems. The auction was the \u201cfairest and most transparent way to transfer these relics to Buddhists,\u201d Mr. Pepp\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In its order demanding the sale be stopped, which was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJRyLcfTyTN\/?img_index=5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted on Instagram<\/a>, India\u2019s Ministry of Culture contends that the Buddhist relics should be offered back to the Indian government rather than auctioned. The Pepp\u00e9 family, it said, \u201clacks the authority to sell these objects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Tiffany May<!-- --> contributed reporting from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/06\/world\/asia\/buddha-jewels-auction-india-sothebys.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jewels are delicate, some just millimeters in length, arranged in intricate patterns of circles and lines. 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