Ananda Kuti Vihara, Swayambhunath, Kathmandu
Kathmandu, Nepal · 1951
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27.71480°N, 85.29000°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Built in the late 1940s as the headquarters of the Dharmodaya Sabha, the 'reformist' Newar Buddhist organisation.
- ◆ The Sacred Relics of Shariputra and Maudgalyayana were kept and exposed here for public veneration.
- ◆ Hundreds of white-clad Newar Buddhists poured in daily.
- ◆ A bhikkhu ordination ceremony for two Newar novices was conducted within its established sima.
- ◆ Mohan Shamser (the Rana Prime Minister) inaugurated the exposition of the Sacred Relics here.
“The monks were taken to the Ananda Kuti Vihara, a small monastery on the slopes of the Swayambhunath hill that had been constructed only a few years previously and which, as the headquarters of the Dharmodaya Sabha, was the centre of ‘reformist’ Theravāda Buddhism in Nepal.”
— Facing Mount Kanchenjunga
Source: Facing Mount Kanchenjunga
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