Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space

Buddhist Iron Man via Elmar Buchner (Nature News Blog) 

I just love the headline of this article on the Nature blog. It sounds like the plot of a Sci-Fi-New-Age-World-War-II-Superhero Thriller.

A Buddhist statue brought to Germany from Tibet by a Nazi-backed expedition has been confirmed as having an extraterrestrial origin.
 Known as the ‘iron man’, the 24-cm high sculpture may represent the god Vaiśravaṇa and was likely created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, according to Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart, and his colleagues.

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