[Buddha-l] BBC News - Afghan art looted and feared lost forever returns home

Jo jkirk at spro.net
Sun Aug 5 20:07:33 MDT 2012


A beautiful Gandhara Buddha statue image is on this page.

He's depicted as a healthy and well-padded man-reminds me of John Powers'
book,_

_A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian
Buddhism_.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19116195

 

Joanna



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