A THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD Buddhist statue taken from Tibet in 1938 by a Nazi SS team was carved from a meteorite. In a paper published in an academic journal, German and Austrian researchers recounted an extraordinary tale where archaeology, the Third Reich and Scientists at University of Stuttgart found that a Buddhist statue known as Iron Man has geochemistry matching the 15,000-year-old Chinga meteorite. This story made the rounds in late September 2012, but I didn’t want you to miss it. It’s a 1,000-year As is often the case, there has been too much going on of late in the world of Buddhism for me to give justice to most of it. Here’s a quick roundup of topics I wish I could have devoted more time to recently: Tomorrow I’m off with Emily to London for A golden figurine of a Buddhist deity dating back as many as 700 years has sold for more than 3.24 million francs ($3.4 million) at auction in Zurich, far surpassing its estimate. The fire-gilt copper statuette of the many-armed Pancaraksha goddess was A recent article about an ancient Tibetan sculpture may sound like something you've seen in the movies. It involves an important archaeological find, it was once in hands of Nazis, and it holds a newly uncovered revelation. The statue, it turns out The narrative was, perhaps, a little too good to be true. When news broke last month of the so-called "Buddha from space" - a swastika-emblazoned statue, apparently 1,000 years old, that had been carved out of a meteorite and looted by a Nazi ethnologist .
BEIJING: China has installed a statue of Mao Zedong in Tibet, the first of the legendary Communist leader in the remote Himalayan region, which was liberated by the Red Army from the Dalai Lama in 1951. The 35-tonne granite statue, rising 7.1 meters from a Dharamshala: A statue of Jampel Yeshi was unveiled by the Tibetan Youth Congress on March 28, at Lhagyal Ri, Dharamshala, to commemorate the first anniversary of his death. Yeshi’s statue has been installed to remember and honour his sacrifice for the Last month, we told you a cool story about an ancient tibetan statue carved from a meteorite and its eventual arrival in Nazi Germany after a mysterious German expedition. Well, it seems that story just got a bit less cool, because according to one expert .
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