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荷兰藏家告诉法院：他不再拥有“中国肉身佛”
Dutch collector tells court he 'no longer owns Chinese mummy':3hjj.cn/4070


The Buddha statue on display in Budapest in March 2015. The Zhanggong Patriarch, which contains the 1,000-year-old mummified remains of a monk, disappeared from a temple in the Chinese village of Yangchun in late 1995.PHOTO: REUTERS
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Fight over ancient Chinese mummy goes to Dutch court:

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AMSTERDAM (AFP) - A fight over ownership of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk opened in a Dutch court on Friday (July 14), with an art collector saying he no longer possessed the controversial statue said to contain the mummy.

The small eastern Chinese village of Yangchun has accused Dutch collector Oscar van Overeem of having bought the stolen Buddha statue containing the remains of a monk in Hong Kong in 1996.

But Van Overeem told the Amsterdam District Court the statue was now in the "possession of a businessman who wants to remain anonymous" after a art swop in 2015.


He declined to name the businessman.


"It was a verbal deal," lawyer Turan Teke told the judge, adding his client only knew the businessman's "international English name" without giving further details.

The human-sized Buddha statue sitting in a lotus position, called the "Zhanggong Patriarch", disappeared from a temple in Yangchun in late 1995 after being worshipped there for centuries.



Missing for two decades, the Buddha statue resurfaced when villagers in 2015 recognised it as part of a display at the "Mummy World Exhibition" at Budapest's Natural History Museum.

The statue was subsequently withdrawn.

A scan of the statue revealed a skeleton inside - said to be that of the monk who lived nearly a millenium ago during China's Song dynasty.

The villagers "without a doubt recognised the statue when they saw it," their lawyer Jan Holthuis told the court.

The relatives of the monk - whom Holthuis says have written proof of their family ties - are asking the court to rule that they are entitled to have their ancestor returned to his rightful place.

Holthuis is using an argument under Dutch law that says "a person is not allowed to have a known body in their possession" to get the statue back.

He also presented a slew of other arguments intending to show that the statute bought by Van Overeem is indeed the one stolen from the temple.

After three hours of technical discussions, presiding judge Jeroen Thomas asked both parties to submit new written statements.

The judge will now also decide whether Van Overeem should disclose the name of the anonymous businessman, Holthuis told AFP after the hearing.

"This will take a few months," he added.

The case is being closely watched as it could mark one of the first successful retrievals of Chinese relics in court, the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times reported on Tuesday.

Previously similar retrievals have been done through diplomatic channels, the paper said.

Beijing in recent years has vehemently protested the sale of artefacts it says were stolen, particularly in the 19th century when European powers began encroaching on Chinese territory.


另据一网荷兰报道：

荷京法庭今审中国人向荷兰藏家索回肉身坐佛案六星期后裁决

荷兰阿姆斯特丹法庭今天正式审理中国福建阳春村村民向荷兰藏家索还章公祖师肉身佛像的案件，荷兰电讯报记者Mascha de Jong以社交媒体作了现场直播的报道。

关于此案的背景，请参考3月14日本网刊登的新华社新闻。

电讯报的报道说，听证从荷兰时间下午1时30分开始，安排在Van Namenzaal庭审理。原告方的村民并没有出席，委托荷兰律师Jan Holthuis诉讼。

佛像1995年12月14日在阳春村被盗，荷兰收藏者Oscar van Overeem是在数月后从一名古董商人Rustenburg处以交换的方式收藏，称是用三尊佛像换取了这尊佛像，因而没有购物单据。

但是，根据中国的文物保护法，佛像是非法走私出境的。  

关键的一个问题是，佛像现在何处？原告的荷兰律师马上提出问题。

但是，Oscarvan Overeem说已经换走了，他没有说出佛像现在何处，是谁换走的。但是，他在法庭上说，是2015年12月21日换走的，只知道是个华人投资者。

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/dutch-collector-tells-court-he-no-longer-owns-chinese-mummy