India Unveils Repatriated Buddha-Linked Artifacts in New Show: ‘A Very Special Day’

The Indian government has unveiled an array of Buddha-linked relics that were repatriated to the country after initially being set for sale at Sotheby’s last year.It is the first time that these artifacts, known as the Piprahwa relics, are back in India in over a century. Some date as far back as the 6th century BCE.Dozens of those artifacts are now on view in a show that opened at the Rai Pithora Cultural Complex in Delhi over the weekend. Titled “Light and the Lotus: Relics of the