Waqas
@worqas
My favorite fact about Buddha statues is that the earliest Buddha statues show up about at least 3-400 years after Buddha. Learned about this accidentally when looking at the dates of Buddha statues at the MET, looked it up later and learned that early Buddhism did not allow statues/idols.
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Sajad Ahmad
@sahmadphoto
Didn’t know that!
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