A narrow street behind Patan’s Krishna Mandir leads to Patko Tole with its two-tiered temple dedicated to Laxmi-Narayan. It was from here that a 800-year-old stone idol was stolen one night in 1984.

Nepal, Stele, Lakshmi-Narayana, 10th–11th century, gray stone, 33 5/8 x 19 1/4 x 8 in. (photo courtesy Dallas Museum of Art) A sculpture of a Hindu deity looted from a Kathmandu Valley temple in the ...

The Laxmi-Narayan upon arrival in Nepal Embassy in Washington DC on 6 March. Photo: AMITABHA JOSHI Nearly 40 years after it was stolen from Patan, a rare stone statue of Laxmi-Narayan is finally ...

Many statues that have been returned to Nepal have ended up in museums in Kathmandu, where they’re safe and accessible but cut off from their original spiritual functions, she said. A shrine in Nepal ...