Art, Architecture, and Music of South Asia

This site serves to simulate the fieldwork encounter with the classical and folk artistic, architectural, and musical traditions of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. For this reason, the site is organized on a spatial template, situating works of arts, temples, and music in the context of the specific cities-primarily Kathmandu, Pasupatinath, and Bhaktapur-where these cultural productions are found. The ultimate template for this mapping schema is the Sri Yantra, a Tantric cosmogram that serve to integrate the microcosm with the macrocosm by giving vibrant expression to a medieval idealization of space.

 

Website created by: David Bradley