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With the last issue of Lipi-pau Vol. 3 No. 1 issue, we are happy to accomodate Lipi Pau online in our The Newah blog for your reading pleasure. To read the latest issue, Vol.3 No2, click here.

We have also been posting Nepal script lessons for the past several months to help study our own Nepal script. Hope they are helpful for you all. For those who are yet to learn the scripts, click here to visit the Lipi lessons. The last lesson (No.9) is posted just below this posting.

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In our eighth lesson on Prachalit Lipi - the standard Nepal script, we included conjugation of the last set of consonants “sha” to “gya” letters. The 9th lesson concentrates on combined letters with semi-vowels of “ya, ra, la, va” known as “chinaa aakhah” for your practicing pleasure.

Next Lesson: Nepal Script 10 (will be ready soon)
Last Lesson: Nepal Script 8 (Prachalit Lipi Lesson -

World affairs expert and former Nepal ambassador to Russia, chairman of Foreign affairs committee o f Nepal parliament Mr. Hiranya Lal Shrestha’s recent visit to Japan is reported in photo.

1. Professor Emeritus Ama of Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo receiving former Ambassador Shrestha at Marunouchi Hotel in Tokyo.

2. Former Ambassador Shrestha being received by the Newah community members in Tokyo.

Panchadana, charity and benevolence, a major part of month-long Buddhist festivals – Gunla - of Newah Buddhist community held in different parts of Nepal on the 18th August. Buddhist monks were offered five varieties of uncooked grains by the devotees lined up in the streets for the purpose. More in Nepal Bhasa.

नेवाः बौद्धतये तःधँगु धार्मिक नखः पञ्चदान झःझःधायेक हन
ने.सं.११२९ यँला १

येँ, नेपाल मण्डल - नेवाः बौद्धतये तःधँगु धार्मिक नखः पञ्चदान म्हीग झःझःधायेक हन। तथागत दीपंकरयातः लुमंका (५) ञाता प्रकारया अन्न वाः, जाकि, छ्व, केँ, व चि दान यायेगु यात पञ्चदान धाइ। थ्व पञ्चदान नेवाः बौद्ध पुचःया दुने वज्राचार्य, बुद्धाचार्य व शाक्य पिसँ ग्रहण याना बिज्याइगु दान खः। पञ्चदान, येँ, यल ख्वपे नापँ नेवाः बौद्धत दुथाय् हनेगु याः। झीगु बौद्ध नखःलँ जाःगु गुँला लच्छिया दुने बहाःबही द्यः ब्वयेगु, बुद्ध विहार परीक्रमा, शुद्धगु जलँ चिभाद्य सिलेगु आदि नापँ मतया वनेगु, थीथी नखःया दथुइ पञ्चदान नखःनँ नाँ जाःगु नखःखः। झीगु गुँला नखःथेँ क्रिस्चियन्तेसँनं लेन्ट् धइगु नखः लच्छियंक हनेगु याः।

पञ्चदानयागु थूगुहे लसताय् नेपाल परम्परागत बौद्ध धर्म संघया ग्वसालय् लुम्बिनीस “वज्रयान महाविहार” दयेकेतः गुहालि यायेगु लक्ष ज्वना पञ्चदानया यात्रा जुल। सुथय् ८ (च्या) ता इलय् थँबहीया भगवान बहालँ न्ह्याःगु, थ्व ज्याझ्वः सन्ध्या ६ः३० ता इले जमः बहाः, जमल् थ्यंका क्वचाल।

बुखँ व किपा सुभाय् – सागरमान वज्राचार्य

Tokyo -World affairs expert and former Nepal ambassador to Russia, Hiranya Lal Shrestha now in Japan to attend 2009 World Conference against A & H bombs in Hiroshima is scheduled to give a talk about NRN dual citizenship at an interaction cum reception party to be held at Edogawabashi in Tokyo on Aug. 13th Thursday evening from 18:00 to 20:00 hours.

Limited seats. To book a seat and for further detail, please contact 090-2905-0770 before Aug. 10th.

He is also scheduled to be welcome in Osaka on Aug. 10th at a reception orgnaised by Nepalese residents in Japan. For detail, call 090-9880-2545 before Aug. 9th.

He will be in Nagoya from Aug. 11th to 12th and his contact number will be: 052-891-7430.
For other detail, call 090-2905-0770

Marshall, Minn. — The Southwest Minnesota State University has honored a number of students from Nepal along with American and other foreign students for their achievements during the spring semester of study. Students with a grade-point-average between 3.5 and 3.79 gained “Honors” recognition. Of 55 students received honors, 21 students from Nepal were in the list issued by the Dean of the South Minnesota State University.

नेपाःया ब्वनामितेतः अमेरिका विश्व विद्यालयँ सम्मान यात
माःषल्, मिन् - साउथवेस्ट् मिनेसोता राज्य विश्व विद्यालयँ, वसन्त ऋतु सेमेस्टर जाँचे च्वछाये बहःगु नम्बर हःपिँ ब्बनामि ५५ (ञेञा) म्हेसितः सम्मान यागु दु। व ५५(ञेञा) म्हे २१ (ञीछ) म्ह नेपाःमि ब्बनामित खःसा, इमि दथुइ नेवाः ब्वनामित न्हेम्ह दुथ्या - मणिषा वज्राचार्य, श्रृष्टि वज्राचार्य, सुशान्त जोषि, उजेन शाक्य, दीपिका श्रेष्ठ, मणिषा श्रेष्ठ खःसा, मेपिँ नेपाःमि ब्वनामिपिँ थथे खः - संयम् आचार्य, चुडामणि अर्याल, बिकाश भुषाल, प्रतीक देवकोटा, श्रद्धा धुंगेल, कान्चन खड्का, ग्रीष्मा लामा, तेनजिन लामा, अनिल रायमाझि, आनन्द सापकोटा, सन्ध्या थापा, संजिता थापा, श्री थापा व सोनाम योल्मो खः।

थथे अमेरिकाया विश्व विद्यालयँ सम्मान जूपि झी नेवाः नापँ नेपाःमि ब्वनामिपिन्तः झी द नेवाः या पाखेँ दुनुगलँ निसेँ भीँतुना च्वना। भविष्येनँ थथेहे, थुलि सिबे तःजीगु सम्मान कायेफयेमा, लिहाँ वया झीगु माँदेस नेपाल देसयात दयेके फयेमा धका भीँतुना च्वना।

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Hiroshima - Hiranya Lal Shrestha, a noted world affairs scholar, Vice-Chariman of the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Committee of Nepal, former Ambassador of Nepal to Russia, MP and chair of the parliamentary Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Committee, arrived in Hiroshima Sunday to present a paper from the Nepalese perspective at “2009 World Conference against A & H Bombs”. Professor Keshav Lall Maharjan of Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University organized an Interaction Program over lunch meeting in his honor at Nepali restaurant, Namaste amidst a dozen over Nepalese participants on a short notice. Welcoming the guest, Professor Maharjan highlighted some of the political and social activities of the visiting scholar.

In the interaction, former Ambassador Shrestha enlightened the resident Nepalese in Hiroshima with his involvement in civil initiative/movement for dual citizenship for NRNs and equal pension to Ex-Gurkha army. He emphasized the need of retaining the manpower in Nepal by checking the brain drain and also of the civil role for transformation of peace from peace management to peace building in Nepal and regional peace in South Asia. He opined that both the armies, NA and PLA should be rightly managed and cross border infiltration should be checked. He added that amicable solution with mutual confidence is needed to solve the Bhutanese refuge issue.

Pointing at the fact that three neighbors of Nepal are nuclear, Nepal will also be bearing severe consequences of any action or accident, hence should not only advocate and campaign for denuclearization, which is of course the must first step, but also build social and physical bases to increase the ability to protect ourselves in such circumstances. Any platform built in this direction should create “equal Aash (hope) to all, Trash (fear) to none” and make sure that some are not simply more equal than others. He said Buddhism has clues to this issue. Hence, he has been attracted to learn Buddhism recently. One time journalist and author of over dozens of books on world affairs and journalism is currently involved in studying Buddhalogy, shared several aspects of Buddhism. Further, for any viable clue regarding the cross border and cross cultural issues, “rule of the game is to abide by the law of the land” said the veteran politician well versed in the world affairs and international relations.

The program ended with concluding remarks by Parameshwor Karki, and note of Thanks by Dr. Puspa Raj Paudel and lasted for about four hours, much longer than scheduled. Niraj Prakash Joshi of the IDEC conducted the program.

As Nepal’s delegate to the World Conference against A & H Bombs, Mr. Shrestha will be in Hiroshima till 6th and Nagasaki till 9th August. He is scheduled to visit Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Tokyo and other important cities before he leaves for Korea on 15th this month. During his stay in Japan, he can be contacted through 090-2905-0770 until the 14th.

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