Sotheby's postpones auction of jewels associated with Buddha after backlash from India's government
The gems for auction were found buried together in reliquaries with the corporeal relics of the historical Buddha and discovered in northern India in 1898, the auction house said. They dated back to around 240-200 BC, it said.
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