
Bones of the Buddha
2013, English. Directed by Steven Clarke.
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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Who directed Bones of the Buddha?
Bones of the Buddha (2013) was directed by Steven Clarke and stars Charles Allen, Ernst Walter Siemon.