Sunday, January 31, 2010

Changunarayan Mandir

Changu Narayan is the name of the deity enshrined in the Changu Narayan Temple, located near the Changunarayan village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples of the valley, and is believed to be constructed in the 4th century. Changu Narayan is the name of Vishnu, and the Temple is dedicated to him. A stone slab discovered in the vicinity of the temple dates to the 5th century, and is the oldest such stone inscription discovered in Nepal.It is listed as one of the world heritage site by UNESCO.
The Changu Narayan Temple is one of seven structures cited by UNESCO as demonstrating the historic and artistic achievements that make the Kathmandu Valley a World Heritage.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Krishna Mandir.

Krishna temple is vary famous and biggest traditional temple of Nepal. It lies in the lalitpr
district of capital city of kathmandu.
This temple of many features surrunding. speacilly here came people worship of god.This temple
come people also own country and another foreign country.Now a days many people belive in the god so people ride in god of valuable assest.Speacially people crowed of Krishna birth day people came people also India. People worship this days people extermly happy and joyful. people fully belive this worship fulfill of desire.many people worship of this temple lord krishna.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Bangalmukhi Temple

Bangalamukhi temple is biggest temple of nepal.It lies in the Lalitpur district of capital city
of kathmandu. This temple of many features specially in this temple came to people worcship in
every thursday.In this days crowed of people. This days people do the worship their weishes of fulfill of deiser.This temple came to nepal and another foregin country.This temple main crowed
of day Rakha bandhan ,Teej and Krishna birth day many people come in and worship and fill in the joyful.This temple people ride in ship beacuse own desire fulfiell.

Monday, January 18, 2010

pashupatinath temple


Pashupatinath temple is biggest temple of hindu religion.it lies in the kathmandu district the capital cityn of Nepal.
Pashunath temple of lord shiva. Many people belive that loard shiva has been sitting in this temple.He wiil give light and strenth to the people so who come to worship him.
Many people come to worship this temple. Cost of hindu people from India also come has to worship for loard shiva.
Specially in the festival shiva ratri, Tej etc.people go to this temple in this days we can see very crowed in the temple. People become very happy and joyful when they pray to loard shiva .they thought that their wishes will be fulfill.



History of pashupatinath temple

The temple was first established in the 5th century The priests who perform the services at this temple have been Brahmins from South India since the time of Malla king Yaksha Malla. This tradition is supposed to have started by the request of Adi Shankaracharya who sought to unify the different states of Bharatam (Unified India) by encouraging cultural exchange. This procedure is also followed in other temples around India which were sanctified by Adi Shankaracharya.Malla kings honoured the request of Adi shankarachaya as latter being one of the greatest ever Hindu acharyas.
Another interpretation is that Indian priests are stationed at Pashupatinath because when the King passes away, the entire Nepali people are supposed to stop religious services and enter a year long period of mourning and as Pashupatinath needs to be eternally worshiped, Indians were brought in to make sure that Pashupatinath is worshiped even at the time of official mourning.
The unique feature of this temple is that only 4 priests can touch the idol. The priests are always from south India. This tradition is supposed to have started by Sage Shankaracharya in 6th century, ostensibly to stop human sacrifice which was prevalent in that temple. However,this tradition was recently challenged after the historic revolution in Nepal which demolished the monarchy and established democracy where Nepalese priests supported by the anti- Indian Maoists government.There was widespread protests by most Nepalese as they saw this as an intereference in their religion.The Maoists lost power after a few months of this.

largest hindu temple(vishnu temple srirangam)


The Temple of Srirangam (Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple), in the Indian city of Tiruchirapalli (or Trichy), is the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world. Legend has it that a long time ago, a sage rested and put down a statue of Vishnu reclining on a great serpent. When he was ready to resume his journey, he discovered that the statue couldn’t be moved, so a small temple was built over it. Over centuries, the temple “grew” as larger ones were built over the existing buildings. The temple complex is massive: it encompasses an area of over 150 acres (63 hectares) with seven concentric walls, the outermost being about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long! The walls demarcate enclosures within enclosures, each more sacred than the next, with the inner-most enclosure is forbidden to non-Hindus

Showyambhu nath


Swayambhunath sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun, for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'. For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it second only to Boudhanath.
The Swayambhunath complex consists of a stupa, a variety of shrines and temples, some dating back to the Licchavi period. A Tibetan monastery, museum and library are more recent additions. The stupa has Buddha's eyes and eyebrows painted on. Between them, there is something painted which looks like the nose - but is the Nepali symbol of 'unity', in the main Nepali language dialect. There are also shops, restaurants and hostels. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading to the southwest entrance. The first sight on reaching the top of the stairway is the Vajra. Tsultrim Allione describes the experience:
We were breathless and sweating as we stumbled up the last steep steps and practically fell upon the biggest vajra thunder-bolt scepter that I have ever seen. Behind this vajra was the vast, round, white dome of the stupa, like a full solid skirt, at the top of which were two giant Buddha eyes wisely looking out over the peaceful valley which was just beginning to come alive.
Much of Swayambhunath's iconography comes from the Vajrayana tradition of Newar Buddhism. However, the complex is also an important site for Buddhists of many schools, and is also revered by Hindus.