11th-Century Monastery Gets Back Statues from Two US Museums–And Discovers Hundreds of Treasures in the Process

A Buddhist monastery in Nepal is experiencing a true renaissance following a series of museum repatriations that brought about an increased interest in the monastery’s 900-year history. The revival in interest led to a hidden trove of Buddhist artifacts being discovered “buried in layers of dust and dirt and mud and sand,” the earliest of […]

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