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Buddhist treasure on show in Nanjing

A MINIATURE pagoda believed to hold a piece of Buddha's skull will go on display in Nanjing City on Saturday.

The four-storey pagoda was believed to be one of the 84,000 pagodas made by Ashoka the Great to house the remains of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. King Ashoka was credited with spreading Buddhism around the ancient India empire and across Asia.

After the pagoda was unearthed in 2008, it has been kept in Nanjing City Museum for two years. Saturday's exhibition in Nanjing's Qixia Temple will be the first and only chance for normal Buddhists to see the real pagoda.

Nanjing government mobilized security guards and fire fighters to ensure the security of the relic.

The pagoda is made of wood and is covered with silver and gold. An earlier X-ray scan found two coffins inside the pagoda, which archeologists believe housed the Buddha skull pieces known as sarira.

 

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