Southern Asia

Projects in Southern Asia

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Patan Durbar Square, Nepal

Patan Durbar Square a World Heritage Site in Kathmandu, Nepal is home to Vishveshvara Temple. The Vishveshvara Temple, built in 1627 was severely damaged. Vishveshvara Temple …

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Digitization and Preservation of Audio Recordings of Music and Oral Traditions in the Collections of Rupayan Sansthan, India

Musical and oral traditions of desert populations in western Rajasthan are sacred to the local community, but are slowly disappearing from existence. To preserve these traditi…

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Char Narayan Temple Reconstruction in Katmandu Valley

Rebuild Char Narayan, the oldest of the temples located in Patan’s Durbar Square. WMF’s long-standing partner in Nepal, Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust (KVPT), will conduc…

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Preserving Bhutan's Cultural Heritage

This project aims to document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records available for free online.

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Documenting Mandaean Rituals and Religious Traditions (The Worlds of Mandaean Priests)

To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records available for free online.

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Maldives Heritage Survey 1

Maldives Heritage Survey

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives, and to publish the material online in an open-access database.

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Nepal Cultural Heritage Documentation Project

The focus of this project is to document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

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