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  2. International Buddhist Museum - Wikipedia

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    International Buddhist Museum is the world's first International Buddhist Museum. [1] It is located next to the National Museum of Kandy and Temple of the Tooth in Kandy , Sri Lanka . The site was the former Palace of the Kandian King , Wimaladharmasuriya, [ 2 ] upon which the British constructed a Victorian era building, which housed the Kandy ...

  3. Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum - Wikipedia

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    View of the Fo Guang Big Buddha and eight pagodas from the 2nd floor of the Front Hall. The Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum (Chinese: 佛光山佛陀紀念館; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Fótuó jìniànguǎn), formerly known as the Buddha Memorial Center, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist cultural, religious, and educational museum located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  4. Category:Buddhist museums - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Buddhist Art; Museum of Korean Buddhist Art; N. Nara National Museum; Nei Xue Tang Museum; P. Panagal Museum; T. Temple of the Tooth Museum; W. Wat Phra Keo ...

  5. Sarnath Museum - Wikipedia

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    Finest specimens of Buddhist art and other important remains have been housed at the museum. While the single most famous exhibit of this museum is the Lion Capital of Ashoka, the Sarnath museum also houses a collection of other Buddhist artifacts. Among the things to see is a sculpture of the Buddha from the 5th century.

  6. Fo Guang Shan Monastery - Wikipedia

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    The campus of the associated Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum is just to the north of the monastery. The Big Buddha (Chinese: 佛光大佛; pinyin: Fóguāng dàfó) of the museum is located at the very back of the museum is made from 1,800 tons of metal and measures 40 meters tall.

  7. Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum - Wikipedia

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    Nagapuspa Buddhist Culture Museum (Chinese: 龍華文物館; pinyin: Lónghuá Wénwù Guǎn): This museum, in contrast to the rest of the temple, is designed as a less overtly religious environment. It has a total of 278 exhibits, ranging from modern expressionistic works to 2nd and 3rd century Gandharan statuary.

  8. Nara National Museum - Wikipedia

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    New museum building Buddhist Art Library. The Nara National Museum was established in 1889 as the Imperial Nara Museum (帝国奈良博物館). The Nara National Museum held its first exhibition in 1895. As prehistory to the opening, there was a Nara exhibition.

  9. Standing Buddha from Gandhara (Tokyo) - Wikipedia

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    Face of the statue, from 3 angles. Base of the statue. Standing Buddha, National Museum, New Delhi. Hand detail. From another direction, Chinese historical sources and mural paintings in the Tarim Basin city of Dunhuang accurately describe the travels of the explorer and ambassador Zhang Qian to Central Asia as far as Bactria around 130 BC, and the same murals describe the Emperor Han Wudi ...