BOOK REVIEWS - Newar Buddhism: The revolutionary roadThe single biggest cause for the decline of monasticism among the Newar Buddhists seems to be the loss of royal patronage, when in the 12th ...

Newar Buddhism began to flourish centuries ago in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, a landlocked Asian country that is also home to the Himalayas and Mount Everest.

Chitrakar also finished an enormous painting of the elephant-headed deity Ganesha, who is worshipped in both of Nepal’s major religions, Newar Buddhism and Hinduism.

For Nepalis, Earthquakes Send Humans Warning From the Gods In Nepal the gods speak through disasters, and shaking ground is seen as a wake-up call to humanity.

To visit the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal during the famous Gunla festival is to experience the vibrant culture of the Newars, and get a glimpse into India's lost Buddhist past ...

Nepal valley — as the valley encompassing the three city-states of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan was known even as late as the middle of the twentieth century — was a complex society where ...

It is celebrated primarily by Hindus but has become a national festival over the centuries and is celebrated by non-Hindu communities as well, including Jainism, Sikhism, and Newar Buddhism.

Throughout the history of the spread of Buddhism to Tibet from India, Buddhist masters and pilgrims have travelled between India, Nepal and Tibet using ancient Himalaya trails. These are their stories ...

Buddhists from the Newar community in Kathmandu are celebrating the month-long Gunla festival. Devotees mark the holy month by reciting scriptures, making early morning pilgrimages to Buddhist ...

Diwali is one of the major festivals celebrated in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Newar Buddhism and symbolizes the victory of light over darkness.

It was in the Valley’s monastic sites, known as baha, that rituals and tantric practices of Newar Buddhism thrive to this day. Seven of Kathmandu Valley’s temple complexes are in UNESCO’s list of ...