Bones of the Buddha

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2013 / 45min.

Rating5

Genres

Documentary

History

Synopsis

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.

Directors

Actors

Charles Allen

Ernst Walter Siemon

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