Publications

The work in NHDP has also contributed to research related to Heritage of and in Nepal, such as independent scholarly publications and qualification theses. We also list publications of team members and consultants that help better understand Nepal’s heritage and thus our project’s efforts.

Publications closely related to the NHDP

  1. Brosius, Christiane, and Axel Michaels. 2020. "Vernacular Heritage as Urban Place-Making. Activities and Positions in the Reconstruction of Monuments after the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, 2015–2020: The Case of Patan" Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8720. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208720

  2. Bajracharya, Manik, Axel Michaels, and Niels Gutschow, eds. History of the Kings of Nepal: A Buddhist Chronicle. Vol. 1, 2. 3 vols. Himalayan Traditions and Culture Series 5. Kathmandu: Himal Books, n.d.

  3. Basukala, Bijay, Niels Gutschow, and Nutandhar Sharma. Patan-Vãbāhā. 5. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022.

  4. Gellner, David N. “The Newar Buddhist Monastery - An Anthropological and Historical Typology.” In Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, edited by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels, 367–414, 1987.

  5. Gutschow, Niels, Bijay Basukala, Stanisław Klimek, Jaroslav Poncar, and Ashesh Rajbansh. The Portals in Newar Architecture: Tiered Temples in Nepal, 13th to 19th Centuries. Himalayan Traditions and Culture Series 8. Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal Books, 2016.

  6. Gutschow, Niels, Bijay Basukala, and Kishor Kayastha. Towers in Stone Śikhara Temples in Bhaktapur - Vatsalā and Siddhilakṣmī. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2014.

  7. Gutschow, Niels, and Hemraj Shakya. “The Monasteries (Bāhā and Bahī) of Patan: A Contribution towards the Cultural Topography of a Newar Town.” Nepal Research Centre, Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, 4 (1980): 161–74.

  8. Gutschow, Niels, ed. Nepālikabhūpavaṃśāvalī: History of the Kings of Nepal: A Buddhist Chronicle. Vol. 3. 3 vols. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2016.

  9. Gutschow, Niels. Architecture of the Newars: A History of Building Typologies and Details in Nepal, Part I-VII. Vol. 1, 2, 3. 3 vols. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2011.

  10. Gutschow, Niels. Bhaktapur- Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual, Vol I, II. Vol. 1, 2. 2 vols. Himalayan Traditions and Culture Series 9. Berlin: DOM publishers, 2017.

  11. Gutschow, Niels. The Nepalese Caitya, 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley. Monograph Series / Lumbini International Research Institute 1. London: Menges, 1997.

  12. Gutschow, Niels. The Sky Face. The Himalayan Traditions and Culture 13. Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2019.

  13. Gutschow, Niels. “Char Narayan Temple.” Nepal Patan Durbar, Earthquake Response Campaign: Documentation of Work to Date. Patan: Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, 2016.

  14. Gutschow, Niels. “The Patan Royal Palace Project, Restoration of Sundari Cok.” Kathmandu: Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, 2008.

  15. Gutschow, Niels. “The Pujahari Math: A Survey of Newar Building Techniques and Restoration Methods in the Valley of Kathmandu.” IsMEO, East and West, New Series, 26, no. 1–2 (1976): 191–204.

  16. Gutschow, Niels. “Vishveshvara Temple 1627.” In Nepal, Patan Darbar, Earthquake Response Campaign – Documentation of Work to Date, 233–54. Patan: Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, 2016.

  17. Locke, John K. Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal: A Survey of the Bāhās and Bahīs of the Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu: Sahayogi Press, 1985.

  18. Locke, John K. Karunamaya: The Cult of Avalokitesvara-Matsyendranath in the Valley of Nepal. Kathmandu: Sahayogi Prakashan, 1980.

  19. Michaels, Axel, and Govinda Tandan. Paśupatikṣetra Maps of Deopatan. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, 1994.

  20. Michaels, Axel, and Govinda Tandon. Paśupatikṣetra: A Historical Inventory. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2017.

  21. Michaels, Axel. Śiva in Trouble: Festivals and Rituals at the Paśupatinātha Temple of Deopatan (Nepal). South Asia Research. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  22. Michaels, Axel. “Pasupatinatha as a Place of Pilgrimage (Tirthayatras).” In Siva in Trouble, Festivals and Rituals at the Pasupatinatha Temple of Deopatan (Nepal), 193–207. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  23. Pruscha, Carl, ed. Kathmandu Valley: The Preservation of Physical Environment and Cultural Heritage, Protective Inventory. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications (reprint), 2015.

  24. Pruscha, Carl. Kathmandu Valley, The Preservation of Physical Environment and Cultural Heritage, A Protective Inventory 1. Vol. 1. 2 vols. Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1975.

  25. Schroeder, Ulrich Von. Nepalese Stone Sculptures, Vol I. Vol. 1 (Hindu). 2 vols. Switzerland: Visual Dharma Publications, 2019.

  26. Schroeder, Ulrich Von. Nepalese Stone Sculptures, Vol II. Vol. 2 (Buddhist). 2 vols. Switzerland: Visual Dharma Publications, 2019.

  27. Theophile, Eric, and Niels Gutschow, eds. The Sulima Pagoda, East Meets West in The Restoration of a Nepalese Temple. Nepal Architecture Archive Series. Kathmandu: The Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, 2002.

  28. Michaels, Axel: Nepal: a history from the earliest times to the present. New York : Oxford University Press, 2024 — https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197650936.001.0001

  29. Michaels, Axel. “From Syncretism to Transculturality: The Dīpaṅkara Procession in the Kathmandu Valley.” In South Asian Festivals on the Move, edited by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels, 317–42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.

  30. Khatiwoda, Rajan, Cubelic, Simon and Michaels, Axel: The "Mulukī Ain" of 1854: Nepal’s First Legal Code , Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 (Documenta Nepalica – Book Series, Vol. 2). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.769

Theses written using data from DANAM

  1. Charlotte von Waitz: Writing on Phalcas: Contested urban heritage-making in Lalitpur, Nepal (BA thesis; submitted June 2020).

  2. Diego Jaimes: Realms of Belonging: Urban Built Heritage Spaces and Places through Courtyards of the Kathmandu Valley (MA thesis; submitted March 2024).


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