In 2016, Singaporean couple Dr Tommy Ong and Ng Suh Yee bought a Buddha statue in a village in Bhutan.
Last year, they discovered the statue was around 400 years old and decided to return it to the kingdom.
Source: Xu Kailing via 8world News on Facebook
The clay statue measures 34 centimeters high and 27 centimeters wide. It portrays the Buddha in the “Bhumisparsha” posture and it holds great importance to Bhutanese culture.
The statue was returned to the Kingdom of Bhutan this morning (8 May), according to an 8world News report.
The couple bought the statue from Thimphu Village in Bhutan in 2016.
Source: Xu Kailing via 8world News on Facebook
Last year, they had the statue undergo a complete thermoluminescence test, a process of determining the age of objects via the amount of radiation it has absorbed over time. This was conducted by Dr Ralf Kotalla, founder of Laboratory Kotalla in Germany.
The results revealed that the statue dates back to the 1620s and has a history of about 400 years.
After over seven years, the statue was finally returned to the King of Bhutan through the Ambassador of Bhutan to Singapore and Thailand — Mr Kinzang Dorji
Venerable Seck Kwang Phing, Chairman of the Singapore Buddhist Federation, officiated the handover ceremony this morning at the federation’s headquarters in Geylang.
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Featured image adapted from Xu Kailing via 8world News on Facebook.
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