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Some pics of Buddha/Buddhist sites clicked by yours truly...

1. Gandhara Sculpture (2nd - 3rd century AD, National Museum, Delhi) Image
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 Image
Probably the most famous Buddhist painting of all time...

3. Padampani Bodhisattva (1st Cave Ajanta, 2nd - 1st century BCE)
#BuddhaPurnima #Buddha Image
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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… Image
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 Image
Friendship between India-Nepal will benefit entire humanity: PM Modi

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🧵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)
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.

--SC
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👇.

--SC
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