I wonder if the one who found it discarded the contents of the casket assuming it was just dust while it may have been ashes from the Blessed One!
I wonder if the one who found it discarded the contents of the casket assuming it was just dust while it may have been ashes from the Blessed One!
Curating Vulture Peak is also an amazing (this one extensive and multi-part) series the British Museum put out related to this. It’s all part of their Curators Corner series. Very good, every episode.
You mean Conserving Vulture Peak:
Ah, yes! It seems I do.
This one is even more only-vaguely relevant, but I thought it was a sign of the times that the British Museum is now doing unboxing videos on YouTube:
For those who don’t know, Seinto Onniisan is a light Japanese comedy about Jesus and the Buddha depicted as young broke 20-something year olds living in an apartment in Japan for a gap year.
Hope the ad revenues can help them offsetting the decreasing numbers of visitors…
Hopefully. Ideally some people will come in and see this manga section and peripherally be interested in other things it has to offer.
I wish there were a Curator’s Corner about Gandhāran art and manuscripts as long as the one on the silk painting.