Also found were ancient statues with a height of two meters.
Chinese archaeologists during excavations of a Buddhist temple in Jingzhou district found cremated remains that probably belonged to the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) and were collected by the monks from the monastery of Lunsin about a thousand years ago. It is reported by ScienceAlert.
As writes the edition, two monks Unican and Jimin from the Temple of Manjushri, belonging to the monastery, gathered more than two thousand sarira — relics, which are the crystals that remain after combustion of the remains of Buddha and other saints. They put them in a box and buried in the temple together with well-preserved teeth and bones of Gautama. The artifact came across villagers who were in Jingzhou, which is engaged in repairing roads.
At the site the researchers also found 260 statues the height of two meters. However, experts do not know exactly whether they were buried together with the remains of a Buddhist Saint. In addition, the archaeologists are not sure that the ashes really belonged to the Buddha, according to ancient monks left the inscription on the box.
In 2016, Chinese archaeologists discovered a fragment of skull, which also probably belonged to the Buddha. The bone was hidden inside the Golden casket, the inside silver. They were kept inside a small copy of the stupa, found in a tomb underneath a Buddhist temple in Nanjing (Eastern China).
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Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha, founder of Buddhism who lived in India approximately 2.5 thousand years ago.
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