New Delhi’s Ministry of Culture said the auction of the Piprahwa gems in Hong Kong, scheduled for Wednesday, “violates Indian ...

Sotheby’s has postponed the controversial sale of a dazzling cache of jewels linked to the remains of the Buddha after ...

A set of Buddhist gems that were once mixed with the cremated remains of the Buddha will not be auctioned off to the highest ...

India's foreign ministry said that the Peppé family had to right to sell the gem relics, since they were taken as a form of ...

Sotheby’s has postponed the auction of a collection of ancient gems linked to the Buddha’s remains after the Indian ...

Indian gems linked to the Buddha’s mortal remains found in Piprahwa, in present-day Uttar Pradesh, in the 1890s, are going ...

As gemstones found by a British landowner in colonial India head to Sotheby's, academics say it furthers "colonial legacies ...

government calls relics 'inalienable religious and cultural heritage' and threatens legal action against auction house.

The British crown had claimed the gems fall under the 1878 Indian Treasure Trove Act, with the bones and ash gifted to the ...

The auction house Sotheby's has postponed its sale in Hong Kong of hundreds of sacred jewels linked to the Buddha's remains, ...

The US$13 million auction was postponed after India claimed the gems, found in Uttar Pradesh, are part of its cultural ...

The gems were precious, but the bones and ash even more so, for according to an inscription on the reliquary, they belonged ...