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	CHAPTER II: THE NEWARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Certain deities are worshipped by all Newars: Karunamaya who is the lord of rainfall; the Astha Matrika, the eight mother Goddesses; Kumari, the deity of pure female energy; and the Bhairavas, the frightening Gods of movement, unruliness, and alcohol.
		Religion to the Newar is not the confession of a certain creed but rather a way of life which involves both belief and the observance of various ritual acts and rules (e.g., caste endogamy) which may be highly varied.
		Among the Newars he is regarded as the protector of the locality, and he is particularly worshipped on Tuesdays.
	web.telia.com /~u18515267/CHAPTERII.htm (7844 words)

	n a t u r e, s o c i e t y & w a t e r
		Many a day Newar farmers must have eagerly waited for the rain and the first drops of rain in the morning must have escalated their hopes only to be disappointed when the rain did not go further than those promising drops in the morning.
		In the Newar community the contrast between the mortality of men and the immortality of gods is expressed in a contrast between those who are not able to collect dew, i.e.
		Newar farmers form the majority of population in Kathmandu Valley and for them rain is a fundamental factor in agricultural production.
	www.svf.uib.no /sfu/nsw/poonam_sem.shtml (8293 words)

	Newar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Nepal’s 2001 census, the 1,245,232 Newar in the country are the nation's sixth largest ethnic group, representing 5.48% of the population.
		Newar reign over the valley and their sovereignty and influence over neighboring territories ended approximately 250 years ago with the conquest of the Kathmandu valley in 1769 by the Gorkhali Shah dynasty founded by Prithvi Narayan Shah.
		Newar architects are responsible for inventing Asia’s hallmark pagoda architecture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newars (1543 words)

	Role of Guthi in Newar Buddhist Culture
		It is still true to say that much still remains to be learnt from the Guthis followed by the Newars of the three cities of the Kathmandu Valley and other Newars living in the Newar sattlements in cities and villages of other parts of the country.
		Even though the Kathmandu Valley is the first homeland of Newars, they, in course of time, spread to all the 75 districts of the Kingdom of Nepal carrying the trading and cultivation business.
		A Newar is born in Guthi, continues the Guthi activities and dies in course of Guthi activities.
	www.lrcnepal.org /papers/cbhnm-ppr-6.htm (4126 words)

	Nepalese musical instrument, Nepalese music: madal, sarangi, sahanai, damai
		The most complex musical culture in the Himalayas is that of the “Newars“ in the Kathmandu valley and the “Damai” in the other part of Nepal, which in the course of the past 2000 years has absorbed mostly Indian influences in shaping a unique musical tradition.
		Newar’s culture flourished during the late Malla dynasty from the 15th century up to the 18th century.
		Newar music and dance are always related to ritual and locality.
	www.himalayanmart.com /nepaleseinstru/nepaleseinstru.php (726 words)

	Festivals of Newars
		The festivals celebrated by the Newars are related with their places and lives.
		Since farmers are busy in farming in rainy season, they do not get time to clean their house and even take bath and wash their clothes.Thus as their work finish by Gathan Mugah, they take bath, wash their clothes and clean house in Gathan Mugah.
		It is the last festival of a year that the Newars observe.
	www.geocities.com /newanepal/festival.html (1373 words)

	Newars of Nepal
		The Newars live in a region of the world within what is known as the "10-40 Window", where access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is extremely limited at best and non-existent at worst.
		If a Newar must make a choice between his or her community and fellowship with other believers outside the community, the Church's express purpose for existing would be defeated.
		That new Newar Christians may be able to continue to live with their families and in their own communities as salt and light among the Newar people.
	www.newars.org /ourmission.html (682 words)

	Tansen Palpa Net - People
		Newar is the second major ethnic group of Tansen.
		Originally from the Kathmandu valley, the Newars followed their trade and business and established marketplaces in strategically important areas like crossroads of trading routes or administration headquarters.
		The Newars are further subdivided into different castes according to their occupation.
	www.tansenpalpa.net /people.htm (182 words)

	Bhairava and the Cosmic Pillar: New Year (main) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For many Newars, Rana Bahadur Shâh is the reincarnation of Pratâpamalla, that is why he was a devotee of Bhairava.
		Newar religion, which reflects a long process of acculturation, seems to have exploited this pre-existing tension in order to integrate tribal divinities into an Aryan cultural universe.
		Through a systematic analysis of the Newar festivals, centered around the raising and felling of a wooden pole called the linga, I have recently argued that the marriage of Lat Bhairo must be the vestige of a royal cosmogony re-enacting the symbolic death and rebirth of the king as sacrificer par excellence.
	www.svabhinava.org /pillar/pillar-main.html (9899 words)

	OnlyAtNepal \| About Nepal \| Culture \| Society and Culture
		The similarity between Newars and Nayars and the looseness of sexual morality among both these peoples is a hint that at one time the greater part of India was inhabited by these polyandrous tribes of the Mediterranean race.
		It seems that the Newars and the khas were two branches of the same Mediterranean race that in early times inhabited the Eastern and the Western parts of the modern kingdom of Nepal.
		The Khas came more into contact with Hindus from India, the Newars were partly overwhelmed by Tibetan invaders especially in the Eastern extremities of Nepal, and the Tibetan influence in language and blood penetrated even to the tribes which we now call as Gurungs and Magars to the west of the valley of Kathmandu.
	www.onlyatnepal.com.np /docs/about-nepal/culture/socio_cul.php (2087 words)

	Nepal Music
		In fact, the Newars are so duly intermixed with music and dances that not a single festival, feast or ceremony, 'from womb to tomb', passes without a music or music and dances.
		Various songs, musical instruments and dances are connected with various religious, social and cultural life of the Newars Different musical instruments are in practice in the festival, feasts, ceremonies and also in funeral procession.
		Mostly used musical instruments in Newar societies are membranophones, which are generally accompanied with idiophones and aerophones.
	asiarecipe.com /nepmusic.html (1505 words)

	Religion & Culture Tours in Nepal - Raaika Tours & Travels Pvt. Ltd.
		The Newars are inhabitants of a Tibeto-Burman origin who speak in Newari (their own dialect) as well as Nepali.
		The Newars are among the largest indigenous groups of Nepal and make up the 7% of the total population.
		Newars have a rich cultural heritage and are skilled artisans.
	www.raikatours.com /religion_culture.php (921 words)

	Keith Dowman / Jampa Lhakhang
		Thirdly, it indicates that Newar style superseded the pre-existent Pala and Central Asian influenced styles found at Zhwa lu and Grwa nang, and became the basis of the fully developed Tibetan style of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
		More specifically, in the sphere of art the Newars were the undisputed masters of paint in the central Himalayan areas, and their reputation in Tibet - underpinned by the genius of Aniko - was always high and never higher than in the fifteenth century.
		This was done by Newar artists transcending the conventions that had caged them in their Valley home, or by katsaras and their Tibetan brethren spurning the tradition that had produced them, to create a new vital religious art that allowed the visionaries of Tibetan Tantra a greater scope and range.
	www.keithdowman.net /art/lojampa/index.htm (4070 words)

	Nepal, Nepal People, People of Nepal, Sherpas
		The Newars believes that the goddess Kumari temporarily resides in the bodies of the Newar Buddhist girls.
		The Newars also believes that the Kathmandu Valley was a deep lake until the Boddhisatva Manjusri swung his mighty sword to create a huge cleft in the encircling mountains.
		The Newars were the Nepal’s leading traders, who organize the trains of basket carrying porters over the trans-Himalayan passes to Tibet.
	www.indovacations.net /english/Nepalpeople.htm (1191 words)

	Newar Buddhism
		Serious Western Dharma practitioners participating in these initiations and seminars seem to be less aware of the existence of a strong Buddhist tradition practised by the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley.
		Newar Buddhism can be classified along the tradition of Indian Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism which derives its lineages from the Siddha tradition of the Nalanda and Vikramashila Monastic Universities of India.
		Although some observers professed as early as the last century the hasty disappearance of this form of Buddhism, it has proved to be remarkably durable an important factor in its conservation and social structure.
	www.lrcnepal.org /articles/article2.htm (1033 words)

	Newars - The Newah People
		Ask a Newar whether he's Hindu or Buddhist, the saying goes and he'll answer "yes" : after fifteen centuries of continuous exposure to both faiths, the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley have concocted a unique synthesis of the two.
		To religious scholars, the Newar religion is as exciting as a biologist's missing link, for some believe that it provides a picture of the way Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism functioned historically in India.
		An integral part of all Newar rituals is the "puja of five offerings", consisting of flowers (usually marigolds), incense, light (in the form of butter lamps), sindur (colored powder) and various kinds of purified food (usually rice, dairy products, sometimes sweets).
	www.jwajalapa.com /religion/index.php (555 words)

	Lie, Benedicte: Born to be a Butcher? A Study of Social Mobility and Symbolic Struggles of Low Castes in the Kathmandu ...
		The Khadgis are Newars, a fairly large ethnic group, that are considered the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley.
		The Newars are proud of their culture and tend to think of themselves as being the true culture bearers of Nepal, referring to the development of crafts, the cities, and the complicated network of kin and Guthi relationships.
		Newar language and traditions are heavily influenced by Indo-Aryan dialects and traditions.
	www.anthrobase.com /Txt/L/Lie_B_01.htm (13790 words)

	Mountain People Nepal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Magars - Gurungs - Thakalis - Tamangs - Newars - Kirantis - Sunwars and Jirels - Bhotia - Ethnic Tibetans - Limipas - Dolpopas - Lopas
		The Magars originate in the western and central areas of Nepal, though are found in scattered communities throughout the country.
		The Newars are of Mongolian origin and are the dominant ethnic group of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding central areas of Nepal.
	www.asian-trekking.com /nepal_intro/nepal_mountainpeople.htm (1017 words)

	New Page 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The east was ruled by the Kirats (Rais and Limbus), the Kathmandu Valley was the domain of the Newars, while the mid-west was occupied by Gurungs and Magars.
		The Kirats ruled from 300 BC and, during their sovereignty, the Emperor Ashok came from India to Nepal to build a shrine, in the form of a pillar, to Lord Buddha at his birthplace in Lumbini.
		The Lichhavis followed the Kirats (their descendants are believed to be the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley) and during their period of rule, art blossomed in Nepal.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~avouac/Nepal_Trip/History.htm (345 words)

	Northeast Watercraft Accident Reconstruction Specialists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The staff has a combination of years of law enforcement experience and sea time, backed by a skilled technical staff, that can investigate, analyze and reconstruct a watercraft collision and present the findings in court.
		NEWARS is based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, nestled on the southern bank of the Merrimack River steeped in seafaring history including the birthplace of the United States Coast Guard.
		Captain Robert J. Cronin founded NEWARS and is a licensed United States Coast Guard Master.
	newars.com (205 words)

	Newah Vijyana
		In the following years, a persistent demand for a national forum for Newars emerged, and shortly thereafter, a national convention of Newars was held in Kathmandu; the Newah De Dabuu (National Forum for Newars), a body that was primarily initiated by the political agenda to assure Newars of their political rights, was formed in Kathmandu.
		Furthermore, we have decided to adopt the names Nepal Bhasa or Newar for the language of the Newars instead of the popularly used name Newari.Many individuals behind the scenes deserve our thanks and acknowledgements for their help with this journal.
		The Newars: the Indigenous Population of the Kathmandu Valley
	www.newah.org /newah.htm (2354 words)

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		Most of the Newar artwork is religious, with beliefs of both the Buddhism and Hinduism intertwined.
		It is common for one Newar household to consist of three generations of the family.
		The family is highly respected and could be considered the cornerstone of the Newar culture.
	www.k2news.com /lesson10.htm (673 words)

	Todd T. Lewis (College of the Holy Cross)
		Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
		"Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley: Ethnic Boundaries and Religious History" Journal of Asian and African Studies 38, 1989, 31-57.
		"Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley: Three New Translations from Tibetan Sources," [with Lozang Jamspal], Journal of Asian and African Studies 36, 1988, 187-211.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/LEWIS,Todd.htm (1104 words)

	Nepal Travel, Trekking, Tours :: Bagmati Tours and Travels (P.) Ltd.
		Kirats ruled in the east, the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, while Gurungs and Magars occupied the mid-west.
		The Kirats were followed by the Lichchhavis whose descendants today are believed to be the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley.
		During this period, art thrived in Nepal and many of the beautiful woodcarvings and sculptures that are found in the country belong to this era.
	www.bagmatitravels.com /culture.htm (531 words)

	Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture-2005
		The Role of Guthis in Newar Society and Culture (125 kb-PDF*)The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture 2005 was delivered by Prof.
		Anthropologically speaking, guthis cover a wide range of social groupings, from kin to caste, giving a preponderant position to territory.Though guthis are a distinctive feature of the Newars in Nepal, such type of associations are widespread all over the world.
		Since then, in addition to his own research on the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley and the Tamangs of west Nepal, he has directed, edited and participated in various anthropological research and publishing projects in his country.Prof.
	www.himalassociation.org /baha/mc_regmi-lecture2005.htm (436 words)

	Are Newars janjati ? - Nepali Times
		A parliamentary bill on nationalities that proposes to remove Newars from the list of Nepal’s 60-plus nationalities has once again stirred emotions on what makes a janjati and what does not.
		Some Newars are happy to have “graduated” into the mainstream.
		Others suspect a sinister design to erase and assimilate a distinct community into a Hindu-dominated amorphous mass.
	www.nepalitimes.com /issue/12/Nation/7911 (225 words)

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