Writing plays on Buddhist themes

Buddhism is a grand positive, poetic and secular mantra that creates a passage for the quest for peace and sanity.

The organiser of Buddha Theatre Festival March 2021, Pushkar Gurung, artistic director of Dabali Theatre, tossed me a minuscule storm, as it were, when he asked me to write a paper on my 'Buddha plays' for the seminar of the festival. In that cyclone of memories, I felt I was trying to find a ground to stand. I have written four plays with Buddha theme in different years of the twenty-first century starting from 2003 when I wrote Agniko Katha translated as ‘Fire in the Monastery’ which, according to its director Sunil Pokharel, is my magnum opus. They opened Gurukul Theatre with this play the same year. Sunil and Arohan Gurukul showed this play in India and several cities of Europe including Moscow. I will just mention why I wrote the Buddha plays and how they did catch up with the times.