Siddharta Gautama Buddha has left us so long time ago and successfuly revered his vast sattva- diciple spread in two third of this world. A stigma to say Buddha is born  not in Lumbini but in India is another unsubstantial issue...
Back in Nepal, the Late Lain Sing Bangdel, a prolific Father of Arts in Nepal has encounter an important  divine realization in very own Nepali Buddha`s that should makes we proud of. In his research and study stated that in antiques arts sculptrues of Siddharta Gautama Buddha icon that he found in the western country, eg; museum , private collections,,,
it its that the intricates value for which the one made in Nepal sculptures  are made exquisitely for devotional purposes - rather than for decorative reason or commercials that avail in India - means Nepalese scluptures are barren of beauty and endear its nuance eccentric of the people, most sculptures in the Nepal temples are mainly of that sorts - divine, mostly very simple, long ears, knotted bundles of hair thus simple plain robes. Contradictly for example in the 2nd and 3rd century, the Buddha idols from India sold to people in Iran and west subcontinentel are beauty, well grommed moustaches, diadoms, well shaped ornament clothes...
That this  Buddha`s sculptures  divine encountered solemnly devotions in Nepal - have upheavel the collective value of Nepali Gautams Sattva, entirely Nepal itself..Thankyou .to  late Lain Sing Bangdel.....pranam to the Nepali@Gorkhas... hajur...