Nepal Manuscripts Return Home After Conservation in Heidelberg

Photo Captions: Axel Michaels handing over one of the palm-leaf manuscript boxes during the handover ceremony — Photo by Philipp Rothe, 24 April 2026; Group photograph following the handover ceremony — Photo by Philipp Rothe, 24 April 2026; Rajan Khatiwoda showing a flattened palm-leaf scroll —…

Touch. Explore. Experience living heritage.

Discover the living heritage of Nepal through the NHDP Touch Screen, located at Patan Museum, Keshav Narayan Chowk, on the southern side of the entrance (to the right as you enter). More than just a map, this interactive display invites you to explore monuments, neighborhood walks, and vibrant pro…

Exploring Panauti

As part of an extensive fieldwork initiative, the NHDP Nepal team carried out heritage documentation in Panauti on 23 February 2026, bringing together representatives from government institutions and academia to demonstrate NHDP’s collaborative and methodologically rigorous approach. Representat…

NHDP at ECSAS 2025

Members of NHDP presented their research at the European Conference on South Asian Studies, held on 2 October 2025. In the panel “State Law, Religious Identity, and Cultural Transformation: Hinduisation and Sanskritisation in the Himalayas,” scholars examined key aspects of Nepal’s legal and cultur…