Discover Nepal guide
Living and Intangible Heritage of Nepal
Explore the community institutions, skills, rituals, arts and oral traditions that sustain living heritage across Nepal.
Guthi stewardship
Newar communities, Kathmandu Valley. Community institutions connect land, ritual duty, festivals, funerals, music and monument maintenance.
Paubha painting and metalwork
Newar artists and hereditary workshops, Bagmati. Sacred image-making depends on iconographic knowledge, apprenticeship, materials and living patronage.
Sakela and Mundhum traditions
Rai and Kirat communities, Eastern Nepal. Dance, oral tradition, ritual specialists and seasonal gatherings carry community memory beyond monuments.
Himalayan Buddhist festivals
Sherpa, Tamang, Gurung and other Himalayan communities, Mountain districts. Losar, Mani Rimdu and monastery cycles join religious practice with music, dance and community calendars.
Mithila art and ritual
Maithil communities, Madhesh. Painting, marriage traditions, songs and festivals connect domestic practice with Janakpur's wider cultural landscape.
Traditional building crafts
Carpenters, masons, metalworkers and community custodians, All provinces. Repair knowledge, timber carving, brickwork and ritual maintenance determine whether built heritage remains alive.