{"id":192882,"date":"2022-06-12T01:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=192882"},"modified":"2022-06-12T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T20:26:28","slug":"rijiju-led-delegation-to-carry-lord-buddha-relics-to-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/12\/rijiju-led-delegation-to-carry-lord-buddha-relics-to-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rijiju-led delegation to carry Lord Buddha relics to Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 11 Jun:<\/strong> Law Minister Kiren Rijiju will lead a 25-member delegation to Mongolia carrying Lord Buddha&#8217;s relics to mark the Mongolian &#8216;Buddha Day&#8217; on 14 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sacred relics will be taken by an Indian Air Force C17 Globemaster transport aircraft in a special casket and will be on display at a monastery for 11 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rijiju told reporters here that the &#8216;Kapilavastu&#8217; have &#8220;AA stature&#8221; and are not moved out of the National Museum here. But on the special request of the Mongolian government, New Delhi decided to send these for exposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially, they were to be displayed for a week, but on request, the display time has been extended to 11 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singer Mohit Chauhan, cultural envoy of Mongolia to India, will be part of the delegation, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kapilavastu relics are believed to contain Gautam Buddha&#8217;s remains. The relics were found during excavations at Piprahwa in present-day Bihar. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 11 Jun: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju will lead a 25-member delegation to Mongolia carrying Lord Buddha&#8217;s relics to mark the Mongolian &#8216;Buddha Day&#8217; on 14 June. The sacred relics will be taken by an Indian Air Force C17 Globemaster transport aircraft in a special casket and will be on display at a monastery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}