From the Xinhua news agency:A gilt-bronze Buddha of the Ming Dynasty Saturday set a record high auction price of Chinese artworks in the world at Sotheby's Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2006.The article is entitled "Chinese artwork sets record high auction price", and the article refers to the buyer as an "Asian art collector". (Does that mean an art collector who is Asian, or a collector of Asian art?)
The company said the Yongle Shakyamuni bought for 116.6 million HK dollars (14.99 million U.S. dollars) by an Asian art collector set a record high of auction price for Chinese works of arts in the world. [...]
But the Buddha statue isn't merely a work of art — it is also an object of religious devotion.
I suppose I've just answered the question I asked in this post about why someone would want to buy a Buddhist relic unless one were an admirer of the Buddha. It's because, to such a person, a Buddha statue is just "artwork".
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