Books related to Bhaktapur

Bhaktapur, on one hand, is an open museum where you can observe the hundreds of years old monuments standing in front of you. Those wood carvings, stone statues, temples, resthouses, ponds, spouts, alleys, foods, and the people, all share a shred of history in themselves.

That’s why sometimes we feel like why do we even need to study anything about such a magnificent place where each subject by itself shouts out everything about them.

Those things that you found on your way while passing the Nyatapola temple or Dattatraya Square. The quite weird-looking windows, red stones in between the streets, and small stone mandalas in front of the door, all have a reason for their existence.

The gentle touch of history and the stories related to these monuments and places simply make your journey more beautiful and memorable, thus making it full of stories.

Moreover, the city has such a settlement that whence more you start to apprehend about them, the more you get curious and left with the mysteries.

That’s why here we come up with a sort of solution, with a collection of books all related to Bhaktapur.

Lists of books and articles with a link

1. Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal
2. Traditional Materials and Construction Technologies used in the Kathmandu Valley
3. The history of Ancient and Medival Nepal
4. Bhaktapur, the historical city
5. The tradition of Nava Durga in Bhaktapur, Nepal
6. Handling Death: The Dynamics of Death and Ancestor Rituals Among the Newars …
7. Struts in Nepalese Architecture
8. Sketches from Nepal
9. The sampradaya sun
10. Sana Guthi and the newars
11. Research paper on water and culture

Physical books related to Bhaktapur (You can find them in Janajyoti Library, Na: puku)

1. Bhaktapur Rajdurbar
   -Pushottam Lochan Shrestha and Tulsi Ram Vaidhya
2. Vishworupa Mandir A study of Changu Narayan, Nepal’s most ancient temple
   -Jeff Lidke
3. Bhaktapur, a guidebook
   BTPC
4. Bhaktapur after a century (both English and Nepali version)
   -Narayan Man Bijukchhen
5. Guide to Bhaktapur
   -Radiant Process Calcutta
6. The cultural history of Nepal
   -B. R Bajracharya, S. R Sharma and S. R Bakshi
7. Legends of Bhaktapur
   -Artha Ratna Tuladhar
8.  Shree Madhav Narayan
9. Insight a cultural city Bhaktapur (Bhaktapur Municipality)

Books in Nepali and Newari Language

1. सिद्धाग्नी कोत्याहुती देवल प्रतिस्था पाँचतले मन्दिर : न्यातपोल देवलको
2. भक्तपुर नगरपालिका सम्पदा पुन : निर्माण तथा जिर्णोद्वार
3. भक्तपुर दरबारका मल्लकालिन भारद्वारहरु
4. न्यातपोल्हँ जिर्णोद्वार-२०७७
5. नृत्य वत्सला मन्दिर पुन : निर्माण
6. न्हु पुखु ( रानिपोखरी ) जिर्णोद्वार
7. ख्वोपको पहीचान भाग १ र २
8. नेवा : म्हसिका ( पहिचान ) या समबर्दन व प्रबर्दन
9. भक्तपुरमा अवस्थीत ढुङेधाराहरु
10. अलकापुरी भक्तपुर
11. महाकाली नाच
12. एतिहासिक भैरव मन्दिर जिर्णोद्वार
13. भगवान श्री दत्तात्रयनाथको सचित्र जन्मलीला तथा उहाँका चोबिस गुरुहरु
14. भक्तपुर दरबार स्ंरक्षित स्मारक क्षेत्रका बर्गीकृत स्मारकहरुको विवरण
15. अंशुवर्मा
16. रणहार
17. बिस्का : जात्रा
18. गन्तब्य मध्यपुर ठिमी
19. प्राचिन तथा मध्यकालिन नेपाल को एतिहास
20. भक्तपुरका एतिहासिक काष्ठझ्यालहरु
21. भक्तपुर एक झलक
22. बिस्केटजात्रा अषटप्रदेश उत्सव
23. सिद्धपोखरी एक एतिहासिक विश्लेषण
24. तिमीला निवासमा घटेका भयावह घटनाहरु
25. सुकुलधोका , लुँं विहार र दोलखा भिमसेन
26. नेपालको एतिहसिक परिचय
27. तुलजा भवानीको थापुजा र पर्वपुजा विधी
28. मध्यकालिन भक्तपुर
29. त्रिपुर र युथुनिमम राजकुल
30. एतिहासिक शहर बोडे – परिचय
31. बिस्केट जात्राको संकृति
32. नेपालमन्डलमा मुकुन्दो नाच
33. चट्टान अभिलेख र अन्य सम्पदा
34. भक्तपुरको नवदुर्गा गण
35. हाम्रो भक्तपुर

Books with some portions related to Bhaktapur

1. The living Goddess “ Nothing short of a revelation”
   -William Dalrymple
2. The Nepalese Pagoda (Origins and Style)
   -Ronald M. Bernier
3. Ancient and Medival Nepal
   -Rishikesh Shah
4. The temples of Nepal
   -Ronald M. Bernier
5. Inscriptions of Ancient Nepal
   -D. R. Regmi
6. Ancient Nepal and Medival Nepal
   -D. R. Regm
7. The Naykhibaja of the Newar Butcher
   -GERT- Mathias Wegner
8. Stolen Images of Nepal
   -Lain S. Bangdel
9. Inventory of stone sculptures of the Kathmandu Valley
   -Lain S. Bangdel
10. The traditional architecture of the Kathmandu Valley
    -Wolfgang Kom
11. The sprirt of place of Bhaktapur
12. The earliest dated document in Newari