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Bimaran casket and British Museum

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Difference between Bimaran casket and British Museum

Bimaran casket vs. British Museum

The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

Similarities between Bimaran casket and British Museum

Bimaran casket and British Museum have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Bodhisattva, Charles Masson, Classical antiquity, Gautama Buddha, Hamsa (bird), London, Mathura lion capital, Pakistan.

Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.

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Charles Masson

Charles Masson (1800–1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier and explorer.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Hamsa (bird)

The hamsa (Sanskrit: हंस, or hansa) is an aquatic bird of passage, such as a goose or a swan.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mathura lion capital

The Mathura lion capital is an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Northern India, dated to the first decade of the 1st century CE (1-10 CE).

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Bimaran casket and British Museum Comparison

Bimaran casket has 60 relations, while British Museum has 994. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 0.76% = 8 / (60 + 994).

References

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