PM Modi inaugurates Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics in New Delhi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Grand International Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics titled "The Light & the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One," at the Rai Pithora Cultural Complex, New Delhi on Saturday.

PM Modi visited the historic exhibition that reunites the sacred relic jewels of Lord Buddha taken away during  the colonial era with the Piperwha relics and jewels preserved at the national museum New Delhi and Indian Museum, Kolkata. The Piprahwa relics, discovered in 1898, are among the earliest and most historically significant relic deposits directly connected to Lord Buddha.