Raj Rajeshwari Temple

Pashupatinath


If you walk south along the west bank of the Bagmati, you will pass a 7th-century standing Buddha image, next to the damaged Raj Rajeshwari Temple, with its unusual curved stucco outbuildings.


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1. Standing Buddha Image

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If you walk south along the west bank of the Bagmati, you will reach this 7th-century standing Buddha image.

2. Religious Market

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Pilgrims flock to this fascinating market to pick up prasad (religious offerings) and spiritual souvenirs.

3. Western Cremation Ghats

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Despite being clogged with garbage and black with pollution, the fetid Bagmati River is actually an extremely sacred river; Pashupatinath is the Nepali…

4. Eastern Ghats

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Pashupatinath's ghats are often full of life and it's worth taking some time to absorb it all. Devotees ritually bathe in the dubious-looking waters of…

5. Panch Deval

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If you follow the road running south from the side entrance to the temple, you will pass this former temple complex that now acts as a social welfare…

6. Ram Temple

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This elaborately frescoed wooden temple is often thronged by visiting sadhus, especially during the Maha Shivaratri Festival.

7. Bachhareshwari Temple

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Between the two groups of ghats on the west bank of the Bagmati is this small, 6th-century temple, decorated with Tantric figures, skeletons and erotic…

8. Shiva Shrines

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Two footbridges cross the Bagmati in front of the Pashupatinath Temple, entering a garden of stone terraces covered in dozens of small Shiva shrines…