Pushpa Bhuyan

{{Short description|Indian dancer}}

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| birth_date = {{circa|1946}}

| birth_place = Jorhat, Assam, India{{cite web | url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0815/at053 | title=Pushpa Bhuyan passes away | publisher=The Assam Tribune | date=2015 | access-date=8 October 2015}}

| death_date = {{Death date and given age|df=yes|2015|10|07|69}}

| death_place = New Delhi, India

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| occupation = Classical dancer

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| known for = Bharatanatyam and Sattriya

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| awards = Padma Shri
NE TV Lifetime Achievement Award

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Pushpa Bhuyan ({{circa|1946}} – 7 October 2015) was an Indian classical dancer specialising in the Indian classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Sattriya.{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1074997971.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409234047/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1074997971.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 April 2016 | title=Highbeam | publisher=Highbeam | date=10 July 2006 | access-date=1 February 2015}} She comes from the Northeast Indian state of Assam, and learned sattriya from Bhabananda Barbayan.{{cite journal | url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2719/stories/20100924271906400.htm | title=Dance of the monks | author=Sushanta Talukdar | journal=Frontline |date=September 2010 | volume=27 | issue=10}} She later studied bharatanatyam under Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer.{{cite web | url=http://www.kala-sadhanalaya.org/guru.htm | title=Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer | publisher=Kala Sadhanalaya | date=2015 | access-date=1 February 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://www.nrityabhinay.com/teacher.html | title=Nrityabhinay | publisher=Nrityabhinay | date=2015 | access-date=1 February 2015}} She has also tutored other dancers. A recipient of the North East Television Lifetime Achievement Award, Pushpa Bhuyan was honoured by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Padma Awards | date=2015 | access-date=11 November 2014}}