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Article: A Rama Temple in Nineteenth-Century Nepal: History and Architecture of the Ramacandra Temple in Battisputali, Kathmandu.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- January 1, 1998
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Edited by AXEL MICHAELS. Nepal Research Centre Publications, no. 20. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1995. Pp. 81, 21 plates, 5 tables, appendix. DM 48.
In March 1994, fourteen students from the Institute for the Comparative Study of Religions at the University of Bern traveled to Nepal to investigate this Rama temple. They had prepared intensively for their encounter with Nepal by studying Nepalese language, religion, culture, and history. The present volume is the fruit of their labors.
A Rama temple in the Kathmandu valley is of particular interest, not only because it is rather anomalous in that predominantly Saiva and Buddhist region, but also because of ...