Note 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…