Help Preserve Nepal's Cultural Heritage
Contribute structured data backed by provenance — cite your sources, and reviewers will verify the information.
New to contributing?
Start by recording a Structure or adding a Source — these are the simplest forms and help build the foundation for more complex entries.
Tangible Heritage
Record a Structure
Temples, stupas, rest houses, water spouts, and other architectural heritage. Includes location, condition, architectural style, and managed Guthi links.
Document an Iconographic Object
Sacred visual art — Paubha scroll paintings, Murti consecrated statues — with deity depictions and provenance.
Add a Buddhist Monument
Stupas, Chaityas, and other Buddhist sacred structures with circumambulation and ritual patterns.
Events & Rituals
Document a Ritual
Puja ceremonies, consecrations, processions, and other ritual activities. Includes deity invocation, performers, timing, and procession routes.
Record a Festival
Jatra processions, chariot festivals, masked dances — large-scale community events with component rituals.
Log a Historical Event
Major events affecting heritage: earthquakes, fires, political transitions, floods.
Living Goddess (Kumari)
Record a Living Goddess Tenure
Document a Kumari's period of divine embodiment — the person, deity, residence god-house, and supporting Guthi.
Document a Kumari Selection
The tantric selection ritual — 32 lakshana examination, horoscope matching, and fearlessness tests.
Record a Kumari Retirement
The formal event ending a Living Goddess tenure, marking return to secular status.
Conceptual Entities
Add a Deity
Hindu, Buddhist, or syncretic divine entities with tradition, alternate names, and links to iconographic objects.
Map a Syncretic Relationship
Document cross-tradition deity equivalences (e.g., Avalokiteshvara = Matsyendranath) with epistemic provenance.
Social Organizations
Register a Guthi Organization
Endowed trust organizations managing temples, rituals, and land. Includes Guthi type, membership, and managed structures.
Record a Historical Person
Kings, artisans, priests, scholars — with biography, institutional affiliation, and expertise areas.
Document a Caste Group
Hereditary social groups (Jati) with specific ritual roles and occupational duties (e.g., Vajracharya, Shakya).
Spaces & Time
Add a Place / Location
Geographic locations where heritage structures exist and events occur. Includes WKT coordinates and place type.
Define a Historical Period
Time periods (Lichhavi Era, Malla Period) with temporal extent for contextualizing heritage.
Register a Calendar System
Calendar reckoning systems (Bikram Sambat, Nepal Sambat) with epoch dates and Gregorian conversion rules.
Sources & Provenance
Add a Source / Document
Books, archival records, oral histories, inscriptions — with DataCite identifiers, citation, and language.
Log a Documentation Activity
Field surveys, oral history interviews, archival research — the process of recording heritage information.
Record a Heritage Assertion
A factual claim about a heritage entity with explicit source, author, confidence score, and reconciliation status.