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Hindu devotees throng Swayambhunath Temple Kathmandu,Nepal [01:08]
Located in a lovely little hill rock Swayambhunath Stupa middle of city is one of the most fascinating architectural jewels of the world. This great Stoup is said to have been built around 250 BC Generally a holy memorial site Stoup represents a typical Buddhist architecture. Its main feature the white dome is identified with a spotless pure jewel of Nirvana and a thirteen tiered golden spire in conical shape surmounted on the dome. Underneath this towering structure are a pair of all seeing eyes of Buddha painted on all four sides of the Stupa. The Stupa of Swayambhunath stands on a typically stylized lotus mandala base-a long time ago believed to have originated from a legendary lake of Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu is the capital of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and headquarter centre of 14 administrative zones of Nepal. Not only is Kathmandu the economic hub of Nepal, it is the cultural and tourism capital of the country. The history of Nepal can be dated back to nearly 2000 years AD. The city is the nucleus of Kathmandu Valley in the Himalayas, which includes two sister cities called Lalitpur and Bhaktapur/Bhadgaon. The UNESCO has inferred these three cities as "Kathmandu Valley-UNESCO World Heritage Site" as one unit. Source: Wikipedia Thisfootage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of ...
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Monkey Temple [01:01]
A tourist offering prayer to the Swayambhunath Temple ( monkey temple ) Kathmandu Nepal Located in a lovely little hill rock Swayambhunath Stupa middle of city is one of the most fascinating architectural jewels of the world. This great Stoup is said to have been built around 250 BC Generally a holy memorial site Stoup represents a typical Buddhist architecture. The Stupa of Swoyambhunath stands on a typically stylized lotus mandala base-a long time ago believed to have originated from a legendary lake of Kathmandu Valley. As the ancient legend goes Kathmandu Valley was a lake a long time ago. Right in the centre of this lake was a full blown lotus with the divine light a top. When Maha Manjushri a saint from China heard about this he came rushing all the way from China to the Valley. He cut through the southern wall hill of the valley with his divine sword. The cleft made by the sword immediately drained the entire lake water making the valley floor open for a close up view of the divine lotus light. This holy site in fact is the massive stupa complex ever built in Nepal. Hundreds of votive shrines and other historical monuments built in and around this stupa speak a lot about the significance and antiquity of this famed stupa. It lies about 3k.m. west of down town Kathmandu. There are two different ways to reach for this site. One is from the west side which is relatively a short cut and another is from the east side where it leads to the main entrance with 360 steps ...
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NEPALESE CULTURE AND TOURISM SWAYAMBHUNATH KATHMANDU NEPAL [04:33]
Swayambhunath is a very popular and beautiful place, it is situated 4 km. from center of Kathmandu city. specially it is know as Buddhist Stupa, it lies on top of the small hill, which lies in south part of Capital city. Swayambhunath means the self-manifested Lord Swayambhu and people believed to derive from a time when tradition says, Kathmandu valley wan under the water of vast lake, and it was a know as s home of Vipashwi Buddha is credited with having sown lotus, which grew into a giant jeweled lotus. And also it has another story which says that Manjushree used his sword to drain the lake once filed the Kathmandu Valley, Swayambhu was a small stupa when it first appeared, but after a long time suffered demolition from earthquakes and it was whitewashed and plastered. From Swayambhu we can see very beautiful view of Kathmandu city and many mountains beside hills.
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