
Valuable buddhist relics that had been occasionally found during inventory of funds were presented in National museum of Tuva republic.
Dozens of small statuettes representing diffirent gods were gathered at the only buddhist center in Tuva in 1946 when communist authoritites permitted to open this center. The have been stored in museum funds for 50 years as at that time of total atheism nobody made an effort to restore these relics. Only this year after half a century of being untouched they begin being restored by specially invited lama.
In one of them there was found a cache containing 36 diffirent sacred objects. Some of them were recognize. They were fragments of bones and hair of great buddhist guru Naropa and pieces of clothes of two significant reformers of buddhism Bogdo-Gagan and Tsankopa. Some objects are still stay unrecognized.
The artefacts are now exhibited in the new hall of Tuvan museum which is planned to be a place of genration linkage, a place of fusion of past and present.
All relics are believed to possess strong positive powers. The room of the museum surrounding them is considered to be a huree (buddhist temple) and can be used for prayning and blessing.