The Faith on the Divine Knowing Smile

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There was a superstition, in ancien China, that in case of wars and danger, people should bury some  Buddhist statues as a way of expressing their faith hoping that joyful and better days would come. 

In time of crises people have always gathered their own strength anchoring their hopes near the divine. Some, is said, have achieved miracles.

Maybe that's way scientists have found, last month of March, nearly 3.000 Buddha statues buried in dirt in Handan (map), a remote region of China, dating the discovery with 1.500 years old.

The discovery is believed to be the largest of its kind since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told reporters in late March, according to the Associated Press.

"It may have been that some of the ruins and broken sculptures from the past were gathered from old temple sites and buried in a pit," said Katherine Tsiang, director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.   from here