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Contributions to Nepalese Studies
Articles from Vol. 27, No. 1, January
A Rare Nepalese Icon from Janakpur
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I paid a visit to Janakpur (in the eastern zone of the same name in Nepal) in 1959 in connection with archaeological investigations. About two miles east of the Ramamandir there is a village called Kapilesvar, presumably named after a shrine dedicated...
Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Empowerment and Alternatives
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Introduction Reflecting on the failure of exogenous, top-down and blue-print `development' models, participatory development has been ever more discussed since the middle of the 1970s, although it is still enveloped in a cloud of rhetoric. Seeking...
Maithili Linguistic Research: State-of-the-Art
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Background Maithili, a descendant of the Magadhi Apabhramsa, is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. According to an estimate (Davis 1973:316), it is spoken by approximately 21 million people in the eastern and northern regions of the Bihar State of...
Nepal: Five Years Following the Social Summit
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Introduction This paper, principally, attempts to describe and assess the efforts of His Majesty's Government of Nepal in programming and implementation of the commitments made at the Social Summit in Copenhagen in March 1995. The governmental efforts...
Population and Environment Issues in Nepal and the Need for Community Development Policy
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Introduction It is widely recognised that environment, economy and social well-being are inextricably linked (Ness and Golay 1997; UNCED 1992). In Nepal, the livelihood of the rapidly growing population and the national economy mainly rely on forests...
The Size of the Stupa. (Research Note)
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At present, I offer a translation of a short account of a Buddhist caitya. It consists of just one page, and is interesting because in apportions the various parts of the stupa to various forms, of existence. The drawing itself is remarkable in that...
