Bhaktapur-born engineer and draftsman Bijay Basukala began working on monument documentation with the help of a scholarship from the Bhaktapur Development Project as early as 1984.
An expert in Newari architecture, he has been involved in a long-standing and in-depth work collaboration with Prof. Dr. Niels Gutschow since 1987. His work includes the documentation and restoration of Vambaha and Subaha, the Butwal and Godavari temple complexes.
Basukala worked with the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust to guide the restoration of the Kulimha Narayana temple in Patan, Itumbaha in Kathmandu. He has been the leader of a project to rebuild the Harishankara Temple on Patan's Darbar Square since 2015.
In addition to this, his work has led him to survey heritage architecture internationally, most notably in Cambodia (Preah Ko temple complex) and Mongolia (Erdene Zu temple complex).
Within NHDP, Bijay creates architectural drawings.

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