Chinese scientists find part of the skull of Buddha
Chinese archaeologists discover one pagoda in miniature where part of the skull of Buddha could be.
The Chinese state means published Monday the surprising news the past: a group of archaeologists is shortage in an excavation one pagoda in miniature who, according to create, could contain part of the skull of Buddha.
Pagoda was in an iron box in Nanjing, the capital of the Jiangsu Province and soothes of a great number of Buddhist temples.
The finding could perteneceer to the Pagoda King Asoka of Seven Treasures, who dates among the 273 and the 236 before Christ and who thinks itself that he contains sarira of the Sakyamuni Buddha, a section of bone of the skull of Buddha.
Until now one thought that sarira of Buddha (finger bone) of the Famen Temple was the unique part of the body of Buddha in the world. The Famen Temple is located in Xi'an, capital of the Chinese north-western province of Shaanxi.
The legendary Buddha lived approximately between 480 years 560 and a. C., at the end of what is called Vedaic period, that is to say, when it was finished writing the Rig Prohibition (Hindu sacred text).
It passed away to the 80 years in Kusinagara (in the present Nepal), by to have ingested foods in evil been. According to account the legend predicted its death and warned its disciples, but it refused to give them to no rule on the future organization and propagation of his doctrines, insisting in which already it had taught to them what they needed to be saved.
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