Life in the Courts: Portraits and Ceremonies. The Ranas ruled Nepal from 1846 when Jung Bahadur Rana captured power from the Shah Kings and started a 104 year rule as hereditary Prime Ministers. As Dirgha Man started working in the courts since the late 19th century, Rana Portraits and Ceremonie...
Indra Chowk and, on the left, Akash Bhairav Temple during the Indra Jatra festival. This most spectacular event lasts eights days, in honour of the rain gods, at the end of the monsoon period. On the right is seen Shiva Mandir, a temple that was totally demolished in the 1934 earthquake and rebu...
Pashupatinath Temple is Nepal’s most sacred Hindu shrine and one of the subcontinent’s greatest Shiva sites, a sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati River. The roofs and pediments over the main doors are ...