- Condition: MNH Miniature Sheet of 6 V stamp set
- Year: May, 2007
Buddhist Art and Architecture- India 2007 Miniature Sheet of 6V
Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha or the Enlightened is
the historical founder of Buddhism now one of the major world
religions . Siddhartha is born in Lumbini, a small town in present
day Nepal and lived a princely life with wife and child at his
father’s palace in Kapilavasthu until his 29th year, when he
decided to abandon all worldly attachments and seek the path of
ultimate knowledge or enlightenment. He became a bikshu or monk and
traveled the length and breadth of Northern India. He is believed
to have attained enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi tree
in Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India and thereafter was called the Buddha
or enlightened or Sakya Muni. Even though the exact life period of
Gautama Buddha is still uncertain, most scholars conclude that his
life time was from 623 BCE to 544 BCE, when he attained
Mahaparinirvana at Kushi Nagar in India at his 80th year.
This Miniature of 6V stamps featuring the Buddha and his teachings
were released on 2 May, 2007 by India Post to commemorate the
2550th year of the Mahaparinirvana (Abandonment of the earthly
physical form) of the Buddha.
Features in stamps include two sculptures of Buddha, one from the
Gandhara period (2nd century AD)- of the Siddhartha, the young
prince and a sculpture from Myanmar, where the Buddha is featured
as an ascetic having renounced the luxuries of life, the blissful
head of the meditating Buddha, from Sarnath, India, also done in
Gandhara style. Another of the stamp depicts the earthly Buddha
holding the nectar of immortality jar in his hand. The two
horizontal stamps features the various incarnations of the Buddha,
past and present and the prominent symbols of Buddhism, the lotus
and Dharma Chakra ( wheel of duties)- MNH complete set of 6 stamps
in post office fresh condition
International Postage for this item is Euro 1.50 (US$ 2.00)
worldwide by Registered Air Mail. Payments accepted through PAYPAL
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https://www.moneybookers.com) . Multiple winning items of the same
buyer can be sent in a single shipment to minimize on postages.
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