{"id":431800,"date":"2026-06-27T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431800"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:32:46","slug":"13th-century-buddha-idol-returned-to-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/27\/431800.html","title":{"rendered":"13th-Century Buddha idol returned to Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> A 13th-century idol of Shakyamuni Buddha, stolen from Kathmandu and taken to the United States, has been restored to its original site at Nhuchhewahal in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idol was returned through the joint efforts of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the Department of Archaeology and the Heritage Project. Following its recovery in the United States, the Department coordinated with the Tibet House Collection and other national and international partners to facilitate its return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Archaeology said it will continue diplomatic efforts to recover other stolen cultural artefacts taken abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: A 13th-century idol of Shakyamuni Buddha, stolen from Kathmandu and taken to the United States, has been restored to its original site at Nhuchhewahal in Kathmandu. The idol was returned through the joint efforts of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the Department of Archaeology and the Heritage Project. Following its recovery in the United States, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431801,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431800\/revisions\/431801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431800"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}