Lost 15th century wooden statue located in Chicago

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu Aug,1:The 15th century wooden statue of Amoghapasa Lokeshwora has been located in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. 

According to Lost Arts of Nepal, a Facebook page that tracks the whereabouts of Nepal’s stolen artefacts, a wooden statue was stolen in the 1970/80s from the Buddhist monastery Rajashri Mahavihara, I-Baha Bahi of Patan. 

Previously, a standing Tara statue from the same monastery has also been located in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. 

Both statues were gifts by Marilynn B. Alsdorf. The statue originally had eight hands, but only four hands remain in the photograph. 

But now only two hands remain in the museum photograph. Other broken hands are still in the collection of the monastery.