On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha ...

Thompson has been following this case for over a year after the 9th century Buddha statue was flagged by Lost Arts of Nepal, a Facebook page dedicated to raising awareness of stolen artifacts.

A trip to Nepal is ... major center of Buddhist learning. Although it has faced political challenges since the 1950s, Drepung still houses numerous cultural relics, including statues of the ...

Museum officials say they are voluntarily repatriating the object after learning that it had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley ...