Bhaktapur city planning -Ananda Dev
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Revisiting Trivalaya for Clues to Drawing Sriyantra
– Sudarshan Raj Tiwari Of tantra, mantra, and yantra, the three conceptual ways of representing the god spirit in tantric practices – yantra is in the form of a geometric diagram. Of the many geometric instruments known in tantra, the Read More …
History of Kasthamandap
Durham WS Keynote
Kashthamandap
Kasthamandapa history PUB
The Indigenous Newar Building Craftsman
The most excellent of the traditional heritage buildings in Kathmandu Valley have been temples, palaces and town houses – all totally achieved through a thoughtful use of mud, brick & tile, wood and copper in all senses, architectural, structural and Read More …
Traditional Vastu in Nepal Valley
To read this paper presented in a conference on Fengsui, South Korea fengsuipapernov15
Newar Town and Heritage
This is my address to the award function of Madan Puraskar Guthi 2074 BS mpg nepali sept17 . Here is a English version of the lecture madanpuraskarvidwatvachan sept17 .
Ancient Bricks
This article discusses the inscribed bricks of Lichchhavi period – written in 2003 for a conference on ‘Ancient Bricks’ held in Hadigaun. Bricks have been in use in Kathmandu valley since very ancient times. The Handigaun Satyanarayan Archeological Site, explored Read More …
The Democratic Street
As our ontogeny transforms us into Homo sapiens Urbanus (Habitat, 2010) living in cities that are increasingly taking a form of homogeneous globalized entities of ‘smart’ compartmental enclaves/neighborhoods linked and served by transit tube mobility; and as we live indoors Read More …