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Nazi's Discovered Buddhist statue made from a METEORITE - Guest - 11-08-2021

The statue is is believed to represent a stylistic hybrid between the Buddhist and pre-Buddhist Bon culture that portrays the god Vaisravana, the Buddhist King of the North, also known as Jambhala in Tibet.
 
The Buddhist statue first found by a Nazi expedition in 1938. New analysis has found it is made from a meteorite.
 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2209017/Discovered-Nazi-expedition-1936-incredible-1-000-year-old-Buddhist-statue-METEORITE.html
 
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Nazi's Discovered Buddhist statue made from a METEORITE - Guest - 11-08-2021

The article says it is unknown how it was discovered.  I'm wondering whether the Nazi's stole it from the Tibetans.