Les Antiques de Nepal
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caretakers, including priests, were said to be involved. It was a fact that such misdeeds occurred under the protection of many high placed officials in government and law enforcement agencies.
The theft of a 5th century, 1.2 meters tall Gilded Head of ‘Dipankar Budha’ on February 16th 2002, from its caretaker’s house in Nag Bahal of Patan caused an international furore. It was later revealed that a German art collector had tried to sell it to the Ethnographic Museum in Vienna for 0,000. Due to its timely identification by scholars of the University of Vienna with help from the Buddhist community of Patan, the ‘Dipankar Budha’ was returned in May 2002.
No wonder then, that a 122cm x 49cm bronze ‘Dipankar Budha'(1824 A.D.), of Nardevi, has been sent to the National Museum as a precautionary measure and is taken out only once a year, for a week, during
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