New Delhi, Jan. 1 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Grand International Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics, titled "The Light & the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One", on January 3, at the Rai Pithora Cultural Complex in New Delhi, a government release said on Thursday.
The exposition brings together, for the first time, the repatriated Piprahwa relics with authentic relics and archaeological materials from Piprahwa preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi, and the Indian Museum, Kolkata.
The Piprahwa relics, discovered in 1898, hold a central place in the archaeological study of early Buddhism and are among the earliest and most historically significant relic deposits directly connected to Bhagwan Buddha.
The expo...