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'''''Dharmodaya''''' ([[Devanagari]]: धर्मोदय) was a monthly magazine in [[Nepal Bhasa]] on [[Theravada Buddhism]]. It was launched from [[Kalimpong]], India, in 1947<ref name="vnm">{{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}}</ref> to counter the ban on publication in [[Nepal]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

''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.<ref>Joshi, Bhuwan Lal and Rose, Leo E. (1966) ''Democratic innovations in Nepal: A case study of political acculturation.'' University of California Press. Page 244.</ref> <ref>{{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}}</ref>

The monthly was published on behalf of Dharmodaya Sabha by Maniharsha Jyoti [[Kansakar]], a Nepalese trader and main benefactor to the [[Monk|monks]] in [[exile]].<ref>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.</ref> The first editors were monks [[Aniruddha Mahathera]] and Mahanam Kobid.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The magazine had a major effect on standardizing the language.

In 1959 ''Dharmodaya'' ceased publication.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Nepal Bhasa journalism]]
* [[Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal]]

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