hopePlate 184 · Kathmandu, Nepal

Swayambhunath

A stupa on a hill of monkeys, older than the valley's names.

5th c. — ongoing · Licchavi and later kings · Asia

The chamber score

Om Mani Padme Hum

Tibetan Buddhist · Himalaya

White mandalas walk clockwise.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO 'Monkey Temple', among Kathmandu's most sacred sites.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Swayambhunath through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Swayambhunath was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.