Sunday 8 April 2012

Manakamana

Manakamana Temple is located in Gorkha, it is the name of a Hindu Goddess and also believed that the Goddess fulfils the wishes of the people. People visit there and every day and have to pay for the ride or you can walk down. It takes around 5 - 6 hours to walk.

 I would say its not that easy to walk, you have to climb up and down. I suggestion is that if you going there to visit or pray take the ride. The cost for the Cable Car ticket cost Rs 320 for Adults and Rs 225 for children. Soon Manakamana temple will be linked by motor able road.

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Bajrayogini Temple

Bairayogini Temple is a famouse temple of Kathmandu Nepal. Many visitors come there to visit every day. Bairayogini Temple located at Sankhu, Kathmandu and it supposed to have the greatest power of blessings.




View from above Bajra yogini temple Sankhu in Sankhu some 15 kilometers east of Kathmandu city.

The Goddess Bajrayogini is the Hindu – Buddhist parallel manifestation of Goddess Kali. The temple complex is supposed to be as old as Changunarayan (467 AD). It is mentioned in Gopal Vamsabali, a research manuscript, which states Manadev, performed penance at this place.
The present three- tier structure or the temple is the contribution of King Pratap Malla.

Thursday 5 April 2012

Swayambhunath Temple

Swayambhu is situated about 3 km. from the centre of the city of Kathmandu Nepal,.The full name Swayambhunath means The Self-manifested Lord.

Swayambhu is on a steep hill above the valley of Kathmandu, and is believed to derive from a time when, tradition says, the whole area was under the waters of a vast lake in a territory that was once home to nagas.

Vipashwi (Tib. Namparzi) Buddha is credited with having sown the lotus seeds which grew into a giant jeweled lotus there. Several buddhas and bodhisattvas are said to have visited in prehistoric times including Vajradhara and Manjushri.

Keith Dowman in A Buddhist Guide to the Power Places of the Kathmandu Valley tells us that Tibetans refer to the stupa as a grove (Skt. chaitya), the place of 'Phags-pa shing-kun' or Sublime Trees where:

" ... the Jina Vajradhara spontaneously arose from
the Pure Land of Akanistha as a great sacred Tree of Life
(mChod-sdong chen-po -- a Bodhi Tree or stupa) called Jnana Gandola Swayambhu (The Self-Sprung Temple of Wisdom) which brings spiritual release by sight of it, hearing of it, reflecting upon it, or touching it. Look into Newar chronicles called the Swayambhu Purana for extensive details on the arising of thirteen billion times
more merit (for practising mantra etc.) in this place than in other great power places, and other interesting topics. "
Buddham Sharanam Gacchami


Pashupatinath Temple

The stone funeral platforms at the riverside temple of Pashupatinath, where the ritualised cremation of Hindus is carried out.The temple of Pashupatinath is Nepal's most famous Hindu temple and one of the subcontinent's great Shiva sites.

Pashupatinath Temple, with its astonishing architectural beauty, stands as a symbol of faith, religion, culture and tradition. Regarded as the most sacred temple of Hindu Lord Shiva in the world, Pashupatinath Temple's existence dates back to about  400 A.D.
Pashupatinath temple is in the banks of Bagmati river on the eastern side of Kathmanduknown as  Gaurighat fow which People often say the location as Gaushala, Jaya bageswori etc. So, when you reach near the intersection of Gaushala or Jaya Bageswori or Mitrapark then you will see the board where it is written "The Way to Pashupati". The another easier way to figure out is "Bagmati river is flowing beside Pashupatinath". You may hear the sounds of bell from the temple as well.