Several months ago, I dragged Nathan to an antique's dealer in Armadale and bought myself a stone head of a chinese buddha from the 6th Century (which cost me an arm and a leg). I recently found out that The Art Gallery of NSW will soon to be staging an exhibition of buddha sculptures from the same period. These sculptures were part of a large group of 400 buddhas that were accidentally unearthen in Qinzhou during construction work near a local primary school. The reason(s) why they were meticulously buried remains a mystery but the Qinzhou excavation represents one of the greatest acheological discoveries of recent times. Looks like I will be making a visit to Sydney before mid November to check them out.
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