Pranidhipurna Mahavihar

Pranidhipurna Mahavihar
Religion
AffiliationTheravada Buddhism
Location
LocationBalambu
CountryNepal
Architecture
FounderPragyananda Mahasthavir
Completed1942
Website
Official Website

Pranidhipurna Mahavihar (Nepali: प्रणिधिपूर्ण महाविहार) is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in Balambu, Kathmandu which was a key base in the revival of Theravada Buddhism in Nepal in the 1940s.[1]

Informally known as Balambu Bihar, it is located 8 km from Kathmandu at the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley.

  1. ^ LeVine, Sarah; Gellner, David N. (2005). "Theravada Missionaries in an Autocratic State". Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal. Harvard University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-674-01908-9.

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