Bhaktapur

[ buhk-tuh-poor ]

noun

1. a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.

Example Sentences

Along a small street in Nepal's Bhaktapur city stands an unassuming building with a strange name - the Museum of Stolen Art.

From BBC

Five people, including a pregnant woman and a four-year-old girl, died when a house collapsed due to a landslide in Bhaktapur, to the east of Kathmandu, state media reports.

From BBC

She lives in Bhaktapur district nearby Kathmandu with her family.

From BBC

Things got a bit stickier in October when Lost Arts of Nepal, a research site that posts on Facebook, identified two masterpieces from LACMA’s impressive South Asian collections that also appear to have been stolen: a 7th century carved-stone temple-doorway lintel from the medieval city-state of Bhaktapur; and a magnificent 16th century wooden sculpture of Chintamani Lokeshvara, a Buddhist deity popular in Kathmandu, from the I Baha Bahi Monastery in Patan.

From Los Angeles Times

Since Nepal reported its first cases, the team has been camping in a tent pitched on the roof of a hospital pharmacy in Bhaktapur.

From Seattle Times