Auction of Buddhist gems condemned

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/auction-of-ancient-indian-gems-imbued-with-living-presence-of-buddha-condemned

[Jim Webster]

Theological point here. If the Buddha achieved Nirvana,  and on his death achieved Parinirvana. Apparently, instead of being reborn, the person 'parinirvāṇa-s', meaning in this context that the five aggregates of physical and mental phenomena that constitute a being cease to occur.
So how can these gems be "imbued with the presence of the Buddha."

 

[Imperial Dave]

thats too deep for me....!

[Nick Harbud]

Not sure, but Buddhist iconography is very much alive and well.

 

[Keraunos]

Something to be fought over using a skirmish campaign system like Test of Honour? - though I guess that would depart even further from Buddhist principles