The mandala does not shrink — the patrons multiply.

Slide 14 / 28 Lalitpur · Spring Field Notes

Commissioned Paubha scrolls per year · Patan · Bhaktapur · Kathmandu y-axis · scrolls catalogued

Monastery & courtyard commissions Diaspora & museum acquisitions Survey catalogue baseline

312×

+18.4% YoY · since 2019

Scrolls catalogued in Patan, Bhaktapur and Kathmandu workshops during the 2024 season — a 6.5-fold rise on the 1979 baseline of forty-eight.

64 %

Vajrayana deity portraits

22 %

Mandala cycles

9 %

Sapta-Buddha cycles

5 %

Royal & donor portraits

Reading: The mandala-frame, once filled by court patrons, now fills with monastery sponsors, diaspora donors and museum acquisitions — wider hands, same centre.