NEPAL, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO 1807

This paubha celebrates the completion of a Laxsha Chaitya ritual, during which lay practitioners make thousands of miniature stupa models out of clay to gain merit. See comparable examples from the Jean-Christophe Kovacs Collection, Paris, in Kunsang, 2024, no. 15. and in the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, no. B61D10+.