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THE PIPRAHWA PROJECT

  • Home/
  • Background/
    • The Discovery
    • After The Discovery
    • Timeline since 1898
  • Articles & Research/
    • Articles
    • Analysis
    • W. C. Peppé's Letters
    • Letters from public records office
    • What the letters tell us
  • Buddhism/
    • Worship of the Piprahwa Relics
    • Relics, relic offerings & sarira
    • The Dalai Lama visits Birdpur
    • Excerpt from Mahaparinirvana Sutra
  • Media & Events/
    • Kapilavastu Museum
    • The Rietberg Museum
    • Rubin Museum of Art
    • Asian Civilsations Museum
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Symposium for Tree & Serpent at The Met
    • Buddha Grace for Eternity conference
    • Bones of the Buddha
  • Gallery/
    • Piprahwa Gallery
    • The Piprahwa Jewels
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Bones of the Buddha

Information about the documentary 'Bones of Buddha'.

THE PIPRAHWA PROJECT

  • Home/
  • Background/
    • The Discovery
    • After The Discovery
    • Timeline since 1898
  • Articles & Research/
    • Articles
    • Analysis
    • W. C. Peppé's Letters
    • Letters from public records office
    • What the letters tell us
  • Buddhism/
    • Worship of the Piprahwa Relics
    • Relics, relic offerings & sarira
    • The Dalai Lama visits Birdpur
    • Excerpt from Mahaparinirvana Sutra
  • Media & Events/
    • Kapilavastu Museum
    • The Rietberg Museum
    • Rubin Museum of Art
    • Asian Civilsations Museum
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Symposium for Tree & Serpent at The Met
    • Buddha Grace for Eternity conference
    • Bones of the Buddha
  • Gallery/
    • Piprahwa Gallery
    • The Piprahwa Jewels

'Bones of the Buddha' Documentary

In 2013 Icon Films produced a documentary for National Geographic titled ‘Bones of the Buddha’. The documentary tells the story of the Piprahwa discovery by challenging doubts about Dr. A.A. Führer’s involvement in the find. Historian Charles Allen interviews Harry Falk (professor of Indology at the Freie University in Berlin and one of the world’s leading epigraphists). Falk concludes that the reliquary and its inscription are indeed authentic and that the Piprahwa stupa was built by the Emperor Asoka in approx 245 BCE over the original internment site created by the Sakya clan to house their portion of the Buddha’s remains

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You can see the full documentary here

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