The remains of Buddha has been found by archaeologists who discovered a skeleton several millenniums old.
Religion is a cultural system of faith and worship for a god or number of gods.Buddhism is the world’s fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers or over 10% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
A ceramic box containing 2,000 pieces of cremated bones have been uncovered in Jingchuan County, China, which experts say belonged to Siddhartha Gautama.Siddhartha Gautama, who died about 2,500 years ago, laid the foundations of the Buddhist religion with teachings in Eastern India throughout his 80-year life. The ceramic box had inscriptions on the side which said the bones belonged to Buddha and there were more than 260 Buddha statues found near to the discovery.
“The monks Yunjiang and Zhiming of the Lotus School, who belonged to the Manjusri Temple of the Longxing Monastery in Jingzhou Prefecture, gathered more than 2,000 pieces of Sarira(the cremated remains of the Buddha) as well as the Buddha’s teeth and bones, and buried them in the Manjusari Hall of this temple.” A translated inscription – dated to the year 1013 AD – on the side of the casket.
Some of the statues are at least two meters tall and have been discovered by monks from the Manjursi Temple of the Longxing Monastery in China’s Jingzhou Prefecture, named Yunjiang and Zhiming, over the course of two decades.The discovery of the box was made by locals conducting road works in 2012, but it has only just been reported in English by the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.
However, the discovery was only just reported in English in the journal, Chinese Cultural Relics. Buddha is believed to have been born in modern-day Nepal to a royal family whose riches he shunned in favor of a spiritual life. Buddhism is practiced by an estimated 535 million people approximately 10% of the world’s population.
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