Dharmodaya (Nepali: धर्मोदय) was a monthly magazine in Nepal Bhasa on Theravada Buddhism.
It was launched from Kalimpong, India, in 1947[1] to counter the ban on publication in Nepal.
[2] 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.
[3] [4] The monthly was published on behalf of Dharmodaya Sabha by Maniharsha Jyoti Kansakar, a Nepalese trader and main benefactor to the monks in exile.
[5] The first editors were monks Aniruddha Mahathera and Mahanam Kobid.