2000-Year-Old Buddha Statue from Pakistan on Loan to Swiss Museum

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By Anne Wisman

The Buddha statue being prepared for transport to Switzerland. From thenews.com.pk

The Peshawar Museum in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has lent an approximately 2000-year-old, monumental Buddha statue to the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, where it will be exhibited to the public from 12 December 2018 to 31 March 2019. The three-and-a-half-meter tall statue, titled Buddha Shakyamuni, will be the flagship display of the “Next Stop Nirvana – Approaches to Buddhism” exhibit at the museum. According to Asif Raza, the curator of Peshawar Museum, the Buddha statue is nearly 2000-year-old, estimated to have been sculpted between the first and the third centuries CE. [More]