Golden Faces of Dipankara Buddha : Samyak Mahadan Festival of Nepal : Excellence in Newari Arts and Crafts

Contents: Preface. 1. Background.  2. Baha and Bahi. 3. Introduction of Sangha. 4. Activities within Baha and Bahi. 5. History of Newar Buddhism. 6. Importance of Dana (offering). 7. Dipankara Buddha. 8. Samyak Mahadan Festival. 9. A closer look into Lalitpur Samyak Festival. 10. List of participating deities. 11. Golden faces of Dipankara Buddha: metal craftworks of Nepali Artisans. 

In this book, he presents concise yet complete information about the most important Buddhist festival of Newar communities of Kathmandu Valley. This book describes Samyak Mahadana festival of all three cities of the Valley. Detail list of deities that participate during Lalitpur Samyak Mahadana festival is presented here. Besides, the full page photographs of all big Dipankar Buddha of that event are also included in this book. These photographs have come from his photo collection as well as from some of his friends which were taken during three events of Samyak Mahadana festivals that were held in 2004, 2008 and 2012 C.E.