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0025 Neither Fasting Nor Buddha

This is the “The Head of the Fasting Buddha”, an absolutely spellbinding piece discovered in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from 2-3 CE.

© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. Here’s its entry.

Since I cannot be arsed to seek Enlightenment (it sounds like too much work), I will have attended a pizza party an hour after I published this note 🍕🧘‍♂️