Title & Author:

A Rāma temple in 19th-century Nepal : history and architecture of the Rāmacandra Temple in Battīsputalī, Kathmandu / edited by Axel Michaels.

Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995.

Description:

81 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Nepal Research Centre publications ; no. 20

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-81).
Preface -- Axel M ichaels -- Introduction: Nepal in the 19th Century -- th-Century Nepal: An Architectural Overview -- Erich Theophile -- History -- Axel Michaels, Thomas Schaufelberger, Govinda Tandan -- Architecture -- Dirk Bratz, Bernhard Parodi, Christian Peter -- Iconography -- Christoph Baumer, Barbara Messerli, Marianna Kropf -- Rituals and Forms of Worship -- Regina Jakob, Jtirg Ktibli, Claudia Leutschaft -- Ethnographical Observations and Temple Organization -- Judith Gytirki, Franziska Moeri, Marianne Tiefenbach, Johanna Voegeli -- Afterword -- Axel M ichaels -- Appendix: The Temple Inscriptions -- Axel Michaels, Govinda Tandan, Aishvarya Dhar Sharma -- R eferences.
Includes some passages in Nepali.

Summary:

Contributed articles by a group of students from the Institute for the Comparative Study of Religions of the University of Bern, Switzerland, after a trip to Nepal in 1994.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3515068252
9783515068253

Subject:

Rāmacandra Temple (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Hindu architecture Nepal Kathmandu.
Hinduism Nepal Kathmandu.
Architecture hindoue Népal Katmandou.
Hindouisme Népal Katmandou.
21.70 religious architecture.
Hindu architecture
Hinduism
Rāmacandra Mandira (Battīsputalī)
Tempels.
Kathmandu (Nepal) History 19th century.
Nepal Kathmandu

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Michaels, Axel.
Universität Bern. Institut für Religionswissenschaft.
Nepal Research Centre.
Nepal Research Centre publications ; 20.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192960
Call No.: ID NA6010.8.N42.K376; ID:97-B4025
Status: Available