Secrecy is part of the tantric knowledge system, which means that certain details ought not to be revealed. Accordingly, keeping in mind the Hippocratic oath of the historian of religion, I will describe the mandala "map" by relying on already published materials. Niels Gutschow mentions a similar drawing of Bhaktapur as a mandala , which shows concentric arrangements of various deities (Klover 1976; Auer and Gutschow n.d., 38, rare folio). Gutschow and Klover (1977) designated this as a "ritual map" and made attempts to locate the divinities in Bhaktapur¹s actual space. Levy (1990) argues that the image is not an accurate description of the city, because all of the spots imagined do not correspond to actual locations. Yet, as Gutschow argues, "Certain places are assembled to form an imaginary mandala : and the fact that this mandala is hidden from the eye of the uninitiated vouches for its significance" (1977, 6).