Dharmodaya

{{Short description|Buddhist magazine in Nepal Bhasa (1947-1959)}}

Dharmodaya ({{langx|ne|धर्मोदय}}) was a monthly magazine in Nepal Bhasa on Theravada Buddhism. It was launched from Kalimpong, India, in 1947{{cite news|author1=Rabin Man Shakya|title=Role of Nepal Bhasa Journalism in the Struggle for Linguistic Freedom|url=http://viewsonnepalmedia.blogspot.com.tr/2016/04/role-of-nepal-bhasa.html|accessdate=8 January 2017|work=Views on Nepal Media|date=29 April 2016}} to counter the ban on publication in Nepal.{{cite web|url=http://www.dharmodaya.org/publications.htm|title=The Publication of the Dharmodaya, the monthly magazine|work=Dharmodaya Sabha|date=2011|accessdate=3 May 2012}}

Dharmodaya was published by Dharmodaya Sabha, an organization formed in Sarnath by Buddhist monks who had been expelled from Nepal in 1944 for promoting Buddhism and writing in Nepal Bhasa.Joshi, Bhuwan Lal and Rose, Leo E. (1966) Democratic innovations in Nepal: A case study of political acculturation. University of California Press. Page 244. {{cite news|last=Kloppenborg|first=Ria|title=Theravada Buddhism in Nepal|url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_05_04_03.pdf|accessdate=1 May 2012|newspaper=Kailash}}

The monthly was published on behalf of Dharmodaya Sabha by Maniharsha Jyoti Kansakar, a Nepalese trader and main benefactor to the monks in exile.LeVine, Sarah and Gellner, David N. (2005) Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal. Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|9780674019089}}. Pages 121-122. Retrieved 1 May 2012. The first editors were monks Aniruddha Mahathera and Mahanam Kobid.{{cite web|url=http://www.lumbini.org.uk/nov_1998_1.html|title=Ven. Bhikkhu Aniruddha: Patriarch of Nepal|work=Lumbini Nepalese Buddha Dharma Society (UK)|accessdate=3 May 2012|date=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927074633/http://www.lumbini.org.uk/nov_1998_1.html|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead}} The magazine had a major effect on standardizing the language.

In 1959 Dharmodaya ceased publication.{{cite web|author=Ria Kloppenborg|title=Theravada Buddhism in Nepal|url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_05_04_03.pdf|work=Himalaya|accessdate=8 January 2017}}