DMK's and AP Target - Hindu Temples

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1. stolengods.org/temple-theft-in-nepal-scratching-the-surface-of-a-complex-problem/

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The sacred art of Nepal is in demand.



Why? See above. Western interest in Nepali sacred art is centuries old and hit pop status in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a booming market for Asian art in general and both Nepali Buddhist art and Nepali Hindu art plays to a certain Western desire for the Eastern. It is common to see replica Nepali art in Western decor so it stands to reason that wealthier individuals would be willing to pay to decorate with the real thing.



(Alien dabblers "converts" are the greatest offenders/demons of them all. And indological types. And all oryanists without exception.

On this last, Nazis were famous for collecting Bon religious iconography, and even for manufacturing nazi forgeries as replacements for Bon to market such fake planted 'Bon' imagery as "proof" of super-oryanism in Tibet.)



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The sacred art of Nepal is looted.



Jugen Schick’s hauntingly-titled “The Gods are Leaving the Country” (amazon.com/Gods-are-Leaving-Country-orchid/dp/9748299198) documents 10 years of Nepali idol theft. Since it came out, there has been 10 more years filled with robberies (ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2012/09/27/oped/stolen-statuary/240146.html). A simple online news search turns up more recent examples than even I expected. Indeed, I’ve talked about remote, unguarded locations but that paints an incomplete picture. Nepal experiences sacred art theft from some of its most well known, most sacred, and (one would assume) best guarded sites. To grab just a few articles (my internet is slow, there are certainly more):



March 2010: Idol of Ardhanarayan stolen from Bhaktapur (where I am now, a World Heritage Site). stolengods.org/article/idol-stolen-from-bhaktapur/

February 2014: Idol of Lord Ganesh stolen from Bhaktapur district. stolengods.org/article/idol-of-lord-ganesh-stolen/

July 2014: Theft of a Tara Devi from Kathmandu. stolengods.org/article/idol-of-lord-ganesh-stolen/

2. From HK twitterfeed:

Stolen Gods @stolengods



India: Millennium-old temple idol stolen in Kasaragod http:// www.stolengods.org/article/millennium-old-temple-idol-stolen-in-kasaragod/ … pic.twitter.com/7rJuK8ftMQ

https:// twitter.com/stolengods/status/606769184702394368/photo/1

Retweeted by HaindavaKeralam

Links to:

stolengods.org/article/millennium-old-temple-idol-stolen-in-kasaragod/



which in turn links to the following virulently catholic ragazine, and even it has to admit the following (perhaps as a way for concealing the christian criminals in this, by hiding behind the old 'why would we report on it if we had committed the crime' excuse):



english.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/millennium-old-temple-idol-stolen-in-kasaragod.html

Millennium-old temple idol stolen in Kasaragod

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:27 hrs IST

by Our Correspondent



Millennium old temple idol stolen in Kasaragod

Two idols of the over 1000-year-old Kammadath Bhagavathy Temple in Kasaragod district have been stolen.



Kanhangad: Two idols of the over 1000-year-old Kammadath Bhagavathy Temple in Kasaragod district have been stolen. The idols, one of them being made of 'panchaloha' (five metal-alloy of gold, silver, copper, iron and lead), are estimated to cost Rs 16 lakh in the market.



The theft was noticed by the employees who came to clean the temple in the morning on Wednesday. They found a rope which was used by the thieves to enter the temple. The door of the sanctum sanctorum of the temple was found broken.



The main panchaloha idol, believed to be millennium-old, was stolen in 1985 too. Another idol, made of bronze, was installed in the sanctum sanctorum during that period.



In 1993, the main idol was recovered from a hole of a tree on the premises of Thirumeni Konichal Temple in the Peringom police station limits during the probe and was re-installed in the temple. However, the bronze-made idol was retained in the sanctum sanctorum. This time, both the idols have been stolen.



Chittarickal police have launched a probe into the incident based on a complaint filed by the temple trust board chairman K. Jayadevan.

More proof of christianism of the ragazine:

english.manoramaonline.com/my-news/a-monk-and-his-girlfriend.html



where the catholic ragazine peddles a book by some christist about some Indian 'monk' who has to choose between being a sannyasi and having a girlfriend.

Reminds me of S Korea, where a world-famous (among western christians) catholic S Korean director made a movie (IIRC called "Samsara") about a Buddhist monk running after a woman, getting married to her and then dumping her and their kid in pursuit of Nirvana again. The woman then IIRC confronts the man, who's now monk again, for his cowardice, selfishness, inconstancy and abandonment of his family.

It is pure fiction of course, the typical sort of Korean catholic psyops against Korean Buddhism.





3. Backing up in case it disappears:



ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2012/09/27/oped/stolen-statuary/240146.html

Stolen statuary



The logic is irrefutable for the restitution of stolen Kathmandu Valley statuary from Western collections. But will we be able to protect the gods when they return?



- Kanak Mani Dixit



SEP 27 - A stone image of Uma-Maheswar, the celestial couple, sat atop a hiti in Nasamana Tole of Bhaktapur for 900 years. It disappeared on 23 May 1984 and is today in possession of the Musee Guimet in Paris, bought off the Sphinx art dealership in London. It is not on display, as this writer confirmed walking through the Himalayan section of the museum earlier this week.



There used to be hundreds of Uma-Maheswars dotting Kathmandu Valley’s lanes and bahas. The image of Shiva-Parvati couple in agreeable companionship atop Mount Kailash was obviously much-liked by the nobility and public centuries ago - also why most have been stolen today to feed the ‘Asian art market’ of private collectors and museums.



The statue kept by the Musee Guimet in storage needs to be restored to its place of origin. Till the time that our society and government are able to mount a campaign for return, the museum should consider itself custodian rather than title-holder. It keeps the Uma-Maheswar as a naaso, held in trust for the people of Nepal.



The idol mafia



The statues that populated our temple sanctums and courtyards were ‘experienced’ exclusively by the locals till the 1950s. The lowering of the national drawbridge allowed the overseas world to finally witness the art and architecture of Nepal. This star-struck gaze of the Western world was gratifying, but a new source of statuary opened for the ‘Asian art market’, and the loot began immediately.



The idol mafia includes the local thug and middleman and extends to dealers, ‘art experts’, private collectors and museums from Tokyo to London to Los Angeles. All modes were used to get the idols out, from stealth to false certification. The Kathmandu elites were involved, as were so many diplomats, development experts and so-called adventurers. The gods travelled as personal baggage, by diplomatic pouch, in false bottoms of international overland buses, and by ship or air cargo.



Amidst the turbulence of modernisation and never-ending political instability, the Valley’s lay population and clergy alike was unable to organise against burgeoning industry. The plunder peaked in the 1970s-80s but continues to this day. On 19 September, this newspaper reported of 10 statues valued at USD 200,000 put up for sale by the Christie’s auction house.



Logic of restitution



The logic of restitution is remarkably simple and, it would seem, irrefutable. These statues are not the excavated remains of a long-lost civilisation, but part of a living, breathing culture. The gods are lifted even as they receive the worship of devotees, the achheta and abir. The psycho-social impact is incalculable when an important cultural anchor is gone from the baha, leaving the plinth or niche empty.



Especially in the case of historical stone sculptures, one can categorically confirm theft, beyond the Nepali law that bans export of ‘antiques’ more than 100 years old. One can be unequivocal because the stone images are invariably found in public spaces, with no private person or entity with the right to sell or ship.



When the statues were carved and consecrated, neither sculptor nor benefactor would have considered that, centuries later, they would be the target of collector-bandits. This is why they were not anchored securely and why they are so dreadfully easy to lift.



Lain Singh Bangdel, the late artist and pioneer against idol theft, told this writer in 1999, “The collectors in the West should know that almost all Nepali art that came into the market over the last 30-35 years was procured through theft. Almost all the idols in the Western collections are definitely stolen.” A Unesco official in a communication had this to say: “...the possessor of a stolen cultural object must return it regardless of personal involvement or knowledge of the original theft.”



Divine contraband



It is sad and strange that our population has not risen in protest despite the decades of continuous pillage. The scholarship is weak, the cultural activism tepid, and the Department of Archaeology but a passive recipient of the rare statue that is returned.



One cannot deny the possibility that, amidst the raging impunity, the statues will once again be lifted when they are returned. Which is why the campaign for restitution must involve not only restitution, but the development of a ‘half-way home’ at the Department that will treat the returned gods with dignity, and security for the gods once they are back in their original sanctums.



Fortunately, experience indicates that the logic of restitution is strong enough for individual collectors and museum administrators to readily agree to give back statues when approached. In August 1994, an American collector voluntarily returned four gods after he was shown Bangdel’s photographs proving their public ownership - a 12th century Saraswati, 9th century Buddha, 14th century Surya, and 10th century Vishhnu. In 2000, the Museum fur Indische Kunst of Berlin returned a 12th century Uma-Maheswar taken from Dhulikhel in 1982.



The champions



While the loss of idols is felt deeply by the bhaktajan, the communities do not understand the intricacies of the ‘art trade’ to mount a response. The best they can do is to lock the remaining statuary, toranas and mandalas behind ugly iron armatures. Meanwhile, the flame of concern has been kept alive by a handful of individuals, around whose efforts the future campaign will have to be constructed.



Bangdel and the German travel guide Juergen Schick spent much effort, and braved suspicious locals, to photograph hundreds of idols on their pedestals and niches. In 1989 and 1998, respectively, they produced documentation of the deities in situ, in order to protect them and help retrieve those that might get stolen.



In early 2011, historian Ramesh Dhungel published a survey on Nepal’s “lost heritage” kept by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The conservation architect Ravindra Puri has just opened a gallery in Bhaktapur that exhibits replicas of stolen idols as a way of highlighting the reality of the divine contraband.



Archaeologist Sukra Sagar Shrestha has started the Nepal Art Register on the web, as a means to “disrupt the market for stolen Nepali sculptures and facilitate the return of those now in exile.” Ulrich von Schroeder, who has watched horrified as the gods disappeared since he first arrived in 1965, is working on a comprehensive catalogue of 2000 Valley statues. Sharing the truth with those who hold the idols will help in their return, he believes.



A campaign for restitution



The campaign for restitution would include: technological innovations to prevent theft; sensitisation of local communities; tracking of auctions; court cases nationally and internationally; pushing the Department of Archaeology into action; and building on the photography of Bangdel and Schick. Unesco and concerned groups in the idol-recipient societies must be asked to help.



To begin with, we must bring home the gods whose present overseas address we know, including the Uma-Maheswar at the Musee Guimet. And we must follow the trail of the 15th century Laxmi-Narayan from Patko in Patan, sold by the Sotheby’s auction house in 1990.



This article is based on a presentation on 24 September made at the conference “Objects, journeys and transformations” organised by the research organisation CNRS in Paris



Posted on: 2012-09-28 07:17

Kick out christoislamicommunism from the subcontinent (pseculars are included in christo-communists) and stop aliens from visiting/"converting" (especially from invading temples and coveting our imagery of our - note: not their, never their - Gods),

and looting of Hindoo and other Indic moorties will stop altogether.



A significant part of the alien demons' coveting of and interest in Hindoo moorties is owing to the type of mischievous "Indian aesthetics" lectures that jetsetters/NRIs (unHindus) like to give aliens about "Indian 'artistic' superiority", and their lessons to aliens on "how to 'appreciate' Indian 'art'".

Hindoos in Nepal and India should thank these Indian traitors - as also all those who invited aliens to "convert" or otherwise dabble in Indic religions* - for their hand in this mess.

* Lots of western converts to Buddhism, being new-ageists, like to collect Hindoo made vigrahas of Hindoo Gods too, and pretend they have a right to this. Alien dabbling is pure evil. It could never have happened if 'Hindus' hadn't opened the doors and invited aliens or let them get any glimpse of Hindoos heathenism which is totally private and belongs to ethnic Hindoos alone.



Does one ever see western converts to Hellenismos kidnapping the moorties of our Gods? No. (They don't even kidnap the Greek-made moorties of the Greek Gods. But that's a separate matter, and touches upon a more genuine inclination towards heathenism never seen in western dabblers in eastern religions.)

It is only western dabblers in Indic matters ("converts", indologists/oryanists/vedicists/sanskritists and of course 'Hinduism studies' people like Doniger) that terrorise Hindoo heathenism, who feel they have a right to invade Hindoo temples in Bharatam, who feel that they have a right an indological/oryan/'recon'/convert's right (e.g. Witzels, Staal, Vedic Recon types) to witness Vaidika homas conducted by vedabrahmanas in India and to vampire on said vedabrahmanas' knowledge, and who covet Hindoo moorties and would 'collect' these on the side, like the typical thieves they are.





4. haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=19616

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