In a move to combat environmental pollution, the largest Buddhist temple in Nepal was decorated with prayer flags made of biodegradable materials, as worshipers used them instead of old synthetic flags. Colored prayer flags are an integral part of Buddhist rituals, and these flags contain symbols and prayers written on them.

The traditional prayer banners in the “stupa”, a tower containing Buddhist monuments, were made of polyester and other industrial materials that require decades to decompose and burn emissions of toxic gases, according to the website. wionews In India, the white-domed stupa is located in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu and is one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in Buddhism.

In another context, archaeologists found a pair of copper statues of Buddha, which is 2,200 years old in China, and is the oldest of its kind to be discovered in the country. The small statues are part of a group of artifacts that were found among a group of ancient royal tombs that It belongs to the Eastern Han Dynasty.

One of the statues, known as Shakyamuni, shows Buddha standing on a platform while wearing a long cloak, while the other embodies the five Buddhas..

The statues are at least 200 years older than Buddhas found in China and were made in the Gandhara style, a style of Buddhist visual art, which developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the first and seventh centuries BC, according to the Daily Mail. British.

The Buddhas were discovered by archaeologists working in the northwestern province of Shanxi, located in the central region of China, the same region where the life-size clay Buddhas were discovered in the 1970s..

The excavations, which lasted from June 2020 to November 2021, revealed 3,648 ancient tombs that were built from the Warring States period (475 BC – 221 BC) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 BC)..

Buddhist temple adornment

Buddhist temple

Buddhist temple