29. L'urna reliquiaria del Buddha di Piprahwa

In 1897, in northern India, a British engineer decided to excavate a large mound covered in vegetation. After meters of bricks and earth, something incredible emerged: a stone casket, and inside five small jars containing bone fragments, gold, gems, and over a thousand precious stones. But the most shocking detail is an inscription on an urn: a text suggesting that those bones could be the relics of the historical Buddha. In this episode of Stories of Objects, Stories of the World, we tell the story of the Piprahwa reliquary urn: an object that speaks not only of faith, but also of empires, colonial archaeology, identity, and modern disputes. Because the sacred never stands still: it travels, it divides, it is reclaimed. 🎧 Stories of Objects, Stories of the World is the podcast that tells our story through the objects that have made us who we are. Soundtrack: “Carefree, Ever Mindful” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... #buddharelics #buddha #storiediobjects #historypodcast #shortdocumentary