{"id":55349,"date":"2012-09-28T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=55349"},"modified":"2012-10-07T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T07:03:30","slug":"priceless-tibetan-buddha-statue-looted-by-nazis-was-carved-from-meteorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/priceless-tibetan-buddha-statue-looted-by-nazis-was-carved-from-meteorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless Tibetan Buddha Statue Looted By Nazis Was Carved From Meteorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Relic taken by SS in 1930s analysed by researchers following reappearance at auction in 2007<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A priceless Buddha statue looted by Nazis in\u00a0Tibet\u00a0in the 1930s was carved from a meteorite which crashed to the Earth 15,000 years ago, according to new research, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/sep\/28\/nazi-buddha-statue-carved-from-meteorite?newsfeed=true\">Guardian<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/sep\/28\/nazi-buddha-statue-carved-from-meteorite?newsfeed=true\">Mark Taylor<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/priceless-tibetan-buddha-statue-looted-by-nazis-was-carved-from-meteorite\/buddhist\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55389\" title=\"Buddhist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Buddhist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Buddhist.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Buddhist-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a>According to the report, the relic bears a Buddhist swastika on its belly \u2013 an ancient symbol of luck that was later co-opted by the Nazis in\u00a0Germany.Analysis has shown the statue is made from an incredibly rare form of nickel-rich iron present in falling stars.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,000-year-old carving, which is 24cm high and weighs 10kg, depicts the god Vaisravana, the Buddhist King of the North, and is known as the Iron Man statue.\u00a0It was stolen before the\u00a0second world war\u00a0during a pillage of Tibet by Hitler&#8217;s SS, who were searching for the origins of the Aryan race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":55389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[5143,5142],"class_list":["post-55349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news","tag-aryan-race-nazis-and-buddhists","tag-buddhist-statues-and-nazis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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