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India unveils Buddha gems after century abroad

  • The Buddha, who renounced material wealth to embrace a life of non-attachment, founded a religion that now has more than 500 million adherents
  • The gems, believed to date back to around 200 BC, were unearthed in 1898 by British colonial engineer William Claxton Peppe in Piprahwa, UP state
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Four men arrested for destroying newly unearthed Buddha statue in northwestern Pakistan

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Pakistan's 2,000-year-old Buddha statue on maiden trip to Switzerland

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