This copper wall hanging depicts scenes from the Life of the Buddha — the key episodes of Siddhartha Gautama's journey from royal birth through renunciation, enlightenment and teaching, rendered in intricate relief across the panel. A significant subject in Buddhist art, the narrative has been depicted across Asia for over two thousand years as both devotional object and visual teaching. The piece has been created using repousse and chasing techniques — two complementary methods of working copper by hand. Repousse involves hammering the metal from the back to raise areas of the design into relief, while chasing works from the front to refine and add inverted detail. Together they produce the extraordinary depth and precision of line seen across this piece. This wall hanging has been handmade by extremely skilled artisans in Nepal who takes years to refine their art. It has been produced under Fair Trade principles, and any sale supports the skilled makers behind the work.