Bhaktapur Durbar Square ख्वप लायकु

17/11/2025

🚲 Assessing the Possibility of Cycling as a Travel Mode in Bhaktapur Municipality 🌿

Namaste 🙏

We, the scholar-cyclists of Cycle Connect Bhaktapur, together with the Center of Study for Energy, Economics and Environmental Sustainability (COSEEES), Khwopa College, Bagiswori College, Bhaktapur Multiple Campus, and Tribhuvan University Central Campus Kirtipur, are conducting a study on the possibility of cycling as a travel mode in Bhaktapur Municipality.

This study aims to support the formulation of sustainable and cycle-friendly city policies 🚲🌍.
To make this initiative successful, we heartily appeal to everyone — students, teachers, professionals, and residents of Bhaktapur — to participate in this short survey.

📝 Please fill out the survey here:
👉 https://forms.gle/Tt9T5AmYm6jBmR447

Your few minutes will greatly contribute to building a greener, healthier, and more livable Bhaktapur! 💚

All responses will remain confidential and used only for study purposes.

Let’s pedal together toward a sustainable future! 🌏🚴‍♂️

03/09/2025

"Know Bhaktapur” is a guided heritage walk curated with the insights from my daily exploration, lived experiences, and review of existing literatures, which offers a closer look at the city’s ancient urban planning, history, living heritage, and the people who continue to shape it. In this walk we will be wandering through quiet hidden alleyways to the lively old highway where generations of footsteps have passed. And this journey is not just a walk through space, but also a conversation about the past, present, and future of Bhaktapur.

Note : All seats have been full, so the registration has been closed. See you on the next walk.

20/02/2025

FAITH STOLEN - BREAKING NEWS

CHAMUNDA
(CEILING TILE/PLAQUE)

This 18th Century Ceiling Tile With CHAMUNDA Image, Stolen From Balkumari Temple, Thimi, Bhaktapur, Has Been Located in the Collection of Peter Hardt, Offered For Sale at Galerie Zacke, Vienna, Austria on 7 March 2025, Lot No. 66.

The Insitu Photograph Was Published By Mohan Pant in his Book, "Thimi : Community & Structure of a Town, KATHMANDU VALLEY, 2019".

This Ceiling Plaque is One of the Five Plaques Stolen From the Temple, Now Replicas Had Been Installed.

Gilt Copper Repousse
18th Century
40 cm X 39.7 cm
Nepal
Lot No. : 66

Provenance:
The Kienzle Family Collection, Stuttgart, Germany.
Peter Hardt, 2019

To Be Sold at Galerie Zacke, Vienna, Austria
7 March 2025

11/12/2024

भक्तपुर नगरपालिकाको आयोजनामा २०८१ मसिर २८ देखि पुस २ गतेसम्म भक्तपुर नगरभरि हुने भक्तपुर महोत्सव २०८१ मा यहाँको गरिमामय उपस्थितिको लागि हार्दिक अनुरोध गर्दछौं ! 🙏
समय : बिहान १०:०० बजेदेखि ५:०० बजेसम्म

You are cordially requested for your dignified
presence on the Grand Event of Bhaktapur Festival 2024 from 13th - 17th December, 2024 spread throughout the Bhaktapur City !!!🙏
Date : | Time: 10 am to 5 pm

22/06/2024

Now you can join in and share your photos in this album.

159 new items added to shared album

29/09/2023

FAITH STOLEN - BREAKING NEWS

GODDESS MAHALAXMI/DURGA

This 18th Century Stone Image of GODDESS MAHALAXMI/DURGA, Stolen in the 1980s From Hanumanghat, Bhaktapur Has been Located in a Private Collection, New York, USA.

The Image Was Part of the Largest Shivalinga Shrine, Established by King Bhupatindra Malla Deva in 1712 CE.

The Insitu Photograph Was Published By Art Historian, Lain Singh Bangdel in his Book, "Inventory of Stone Sculptures of the Kathmandu Valley, 1995, Sec.15, Plate No. 26."

The Insitu Image was Also Photographed By J. Cramer in 1973 CE, Which Was Published By Art Scholar Ulrich Von Schroeder in His Book, "Nepalese Stone Sculptures, Volume-1, Hindu, Plate No. 210B."

Earlier Two More Sculptures Have Been Located in Foreign Collections:
1. SHIVA/MAHESWORA : Located in Beurret & Bailly Auctions, Basel, Switzerland
2. GANESHA : Located in John Eskenazi Collection, London, UK

Two Images Were Rescued in Domestic Museum.
1. GANESHA : National Art Gallery, Bhaktapur
2. GOD SURYA : National Art Gallery, Bhaktapur

Stone
18th Century
27.5 Inch Height
Nepal

From a Private Collection, New York, USA

21/08/2023

FAITH STOLEN - BREAKING NEWS

TORANA

This Large 16th/17th Century GILT TORANA, Stolen in the 1970s-80s From the BHAIRAVA TEMPLE, Taumadhi, Bhaktapur, Has Been Located Auctioned by Koller Auctions, Zurich, Switzerland on 3 December 2019.

The Insitu Photograph Was Taken By the Huntington Archives in 1970 CE. This Torana Was Stolen From the Main Entrance to the Courtyard Behind the Bhairava Temple, Facing South.

It Was Offered For Sale From a Private Collection, Who Acquired it in Constance, Germany in 1981 CE. It Was Published in the Book, "Buddha - 2000 Years of Buddhist Art, Catalogue Entry 145."

Gilt Copper Repousse
16th/17th Century
90 cm Height
Nepal

Offered For Sale At Koller Auctions, Zurich, Switzerland

04/08/2023

FAITH STOLEN - BREAKING NEWS

STANDING VISHNU
(FRAGMENT OF SRIDHARA VISHNU IMAGE)

This 13th Century Stone Image of STANDING VISHNU (Fragment), Stolen From a Temple in Bhaktapur in the 1980s, Has Been Located in the Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA.

The Insitu Photograph Was Published By A.W. Macdonald & Anne Vergati Stahl, in Their Book, "Newar Art, Illustration No. 27, 1979". The Exact Location of the Temple Has Not Been Ascertained Yet, the Caption says, "27. Stone Sculpture of Visnu at Bhaktapur, 11th Century."

Partly Broken Nose of the Deity is a Match in Both Photographs. Similarly, Index Finger of the Proper Left Hand Holding the Mace is Partly Damaged. Distinctive Kirtimukha Crown & Lotus Flower in Proper Lower Right Hand & Both Lower Hands Rested on Flower Rising From the Base Are Key Features of This Image.

We Already Have 3 More Pending Claims :
1. Chintamani Lokeswora From I-Baha Bahi, Patan
2. Yakshya/Gana From Tripura Sundari, Bhaktapur
3. Salabhanjika Yakshi Strut, Hyumata Tole, Kathmandu

Stone
13th Century
24 Inch Height
Nepal
Accession No. : M.85.279.4

From the Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Provenance: Gift of James H. COBURN III