KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 15 -- When Dr Krishna Gopal Rampal retired from academia on August 31, 2025, after 43 years of teaching public health and occupational medicine, he closed one chapter of his life and revealed another that may outlast him.

The 74-year-old professor and his wife Kamla Devi have quietly built what is believed to be Asia's - if not the world's - largest collection of Hindu temple art: 414 artworks spanning paintings, sketches and photographs, produced by 16 artists from nine countries.

Known as the Sacred Structures Collection, it documents temples from Malaysia and Singapore to Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and even England. It is a body of work unmatched in focus, scope and devotion.

Dr Krishna spen...