The Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign (NHRC), an international effort by activists to document and secure the return of stolen sacred statuary (ideally to the temples and stupas from which they were seized), announced the same day at its official launch event at Nepal’s Patan Museum that the two artifacts were stolen. On September 17, Lost Arts of Nepal, which was founded in 2015 and primarily operates via a Facebook page, posted across its social media channels that a 17th-century wooden torana and a 14th-century flying wooden Gandharva in the museum’s collection were looted from Yampi Mahavihara, Lalitpur, and Itum Bahal, Kathmandu, respectively. Two carved architectural elements in the collection of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York were identified as stolen by two groups dedicated to tracing looted Nepalese cultural heritage abroad.
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