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…
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…
On October 4, 2025, the World Newah Organization (Baltimore, USA) honored the Forschungsgruppe Nepal at Heidelberg University for curating the exhibition “Buṅgadyaḥ: The Rain-Making God” at the CATS Library. The award was presented by Kumar Napit, President and European Coordinator of the Organizat…
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…
On 1 October 2025, the University Library Heidelberg (CATS branch) inaugurated an important exhibition entitled Buṅgadyaḥ: The Rain-Making God, foregrounding one of the Kathmandu Valley’s most vibrant and enduring ritual traditions — the Buṅgadyaḥ (Rāto Matsyendranātha) procession in Patan, Nepal…