Movie: Bones of the Buddha

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Charles Allen
Charles Allen

Himself - Host

Ernst Walter Siemon
Ernst Walter Siemon

Himself - Narrator (voice)

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    Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.

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    2013-07-23

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