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#VesakDay Thread
Some pics of Buddha/Buddhist sites clicked by yours truly...
1. Gandhara Sculpture (2nd - 3rd century AD, National Museum, Delhi)
Some pics of Buddha/Buddhist sites clicked by yours truly...
1. Gandhara Sculpture (2nd - 3rd century AD, National Museum, Delhi)
No... That's not head of some Greek god, it is Indo Greek head sculpture of
2. Crowned Buddha ( Gandhara Art, 2nd century AD, National Museum, Delhi)
#vesakday
2. Crowned Buddha ( Gandhara Art, 2nd century AD, National Museum, Delhi)
#vesakday
Probably the most famous Buddhist painting of all time...
3. Padampani Bodhisattva (1st Cave Ajanta, 2nd - 1st century BCE)
#BuddhaPurnima #Buddha
3. Padampani Bodhisattva (1st Cave Ajanta, 2nd - 1st century BCE)
#BuddhaPurnima #Buddha
PM @narendramodi addresses event in Nepal's Lumbini on the auspicious occasion of #BuddhaPurnima
#PMModiInNepal live updates:
#Nepal #Lumbini
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/prime-mi…
#PMModiInNepal live updates:
#Nepal #Lumbini
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/prime-mi…
The energy of the place where #LordBuddha was born, gives a different feeling. I was happy to see that the #Mahabodhi sapling I had gifted in 2014 for this place, is now growing into a tree: PM #NarendraModi at #BuddhaJayanti event in Lumbini
🧵One by @ChawlaSwati
On the @DalaiLama & India:
1/ Many of us know that the 14th @DalaiLama has been living in #exile in #Himalayan town of #Dharamsala in northern India since 31 Mar 1959.
Why India?
Was he blazing a trail w/ his escape?
#TweetHistorians
Map from @TIME (1959)
On the @DalaiLama & India:
1/ Many of us know that the 14th @DalaiLama has been living in #exile in #Himalayan town of #Dharamsala in northern India since 31 Mar 1959.
Why India?
Was he blazing a trail w/ his escape?
#TweetHistorians
Map from @TIME (1959)
2/ Second question first: No, he wasn't.
In coming to India, the @DalaiLama trod the path of many #Tibetans before him-- traders+ aristocrats, monastics+ laity, and his predecessor, the 13th #DalaiLama, Thupten Gyatso, who had lived in exile in British India from 1910-12.
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In coming to India, the @DalaiLama trod the path of many #Tibetans before him-- traders+ aristocrats, monastics+ laity, and his predecessor, the 13th #DalaiLama, Thupten Gyatso, who had lived in exile in British India from 1910-12.
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3/ Aristocratic families in #Tibet were closely tied in networks of monastic patronage, intermarriage +trade w/ eastern #Himalayan kingdoms of #Bhutan+ #Sikkim. The British Political Officer in Sikkim kept close watch on these alliances. Here he is w/ the 13th #DalaiLama👇.
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