#kathmandu
NEPAL 2019
Kathmandu
All shot on Canon Eos
i miss traveling so much.
Keith Thurman, AfrAm / White, professional boxer, and the former unified welterweight world champion from 2015 to 2019 is married to Priyana Thapa, Nepalese. Thurman is nicknamed “One Time” for his knockout power and is considered one of the hardest punchers in the welterweight division. As of July, 2019, Keith was 29-1 suffering his only loss in a split decision to Manny Pacquiao in their recent fight. Keith and Priyana first met in 2016 in a nightclub in Japan and were married in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2017. We wish Keith and Priyana a lifetime of love and happiness!
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
“The village that surrounds the great Kāṣyapa stupa is generally known by the name of Bauḍḍha. which in Tibetan is called Yambu Chorten Chenpo (Tibetan: ཡམ་བུའི་མཆོད་རྟེན་ཆེན་པོ།). The real name of the stupa in full is, however, Jya Rung Khashor Chorten Chenpo, which may be translated into: "Have finished giving the order to proceed with.” The stupa has an interesting history of its own which explains this strange name. It is said in this history that Kāṣyapa was a Buḍḍha that lived a long time before Shākyamuni Buḍḍha. after Kāṣyapa Buḍḍha’s demise, a certain old woman, with her four sons, interred this great sage’s remains at the spot over which the great mound now stands, the latter having been built by the woman herself. Before starting on the work of construction, she petitioned the King of the time and obtained permission to “proceed with” building a tower. By the time that, as a result of great sacrifices on the part of the woman and her four sons, the groundwork of the structure had been finished, those who saw it were astonished at the greatness of the scale on which it was undertaken. Especially was this the case with the high officials of the country, who all said that if such a poor old dame were allowed to complete building such a stupendous tower, they themselves would have to dedicate a temple as great as a mountain, and so they decided to ask the King to disallow the further progress of the work.When the King was approached on the matter his Majesty replied: “I have finished giving the order to the woman to proceed with the work. Kings must not eat their words, and I cannot undo my orders now.” So the tower was allowed to be finished, and hence its unique name, “Jya Rung Khashor Chorten Chenpo.” #travelphotography #yinyang #photography #delightingyoualways #canon #wanderlust #nepal #nepal8thwonder #wow #wownepal #portrait #explore #explorenepal #kathmandu #kathmanduvalley #boudha #unesco #worldheritage #worldheritagesites #travelnepal #awesomenepal #solo #peace #Boudhanathstupa #buddhism #buddhist #boudhanath #travel #travelnepal #himgeo (at Boudhanath Temple)
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The colours of Faith ! #travelphotography #yinyang #photography #delightingyoualways #canon #wanderlust #nepal #nepal8thwonder #wow #wownepal #nepalisbeautiful #explore #explorenepal #kathmandu #kathmanduvalley #boudha #unesco #worldheritage #worldheritagesites #travelnepal #awesomenepal #visitnepal #peace #Boudhanathstupa #buddhism #buddhist #boudhanath #travel #travelnepal #visitnepal
Boudha स्तुपा (Nepali: बौद्ध स्तुपा, also called the Khāsa Chaitya, Newari Khāsti, Standard Tibetan Jarung Khashor, Wylie: bya rung kha shor) is a stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.Located about 11 km from the center and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa’s massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal. (at Baudha, Nepal)
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Hindu shrines among the hotel towel drying in Dhobi Chour in Kathmandu.
#kathmandu #nepal #dhobichour #hinduism #shrine #laundry #everydaykathmandu #everydaynepal #dktm (at Kathmandu, Nepal)
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#patan #everydaynepal #kathmandu #nepal #lalitpur #temple #pagoda #religion (at Patan, Nepal)
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Ping pong on the outskirts of the old city.
#pingpong #tabletennis #patan #lalitpur #nepal #kathmandu #everydaynepal (at Patan, Nepal)
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Three illustrations I made for a feature story in the November 2016 issue of Lion’s Roar magazine. Writer Pico Iyer takes us into his past, when he and a friend visited Kathmandu’s royal astrologer in the 1980s and received some surprising readings. Thanks to AD Liza Matthews for the directions & beautiful layouts.
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Piece of art
Our durbar our pride
#patandarbarsquare
Views are pretty good from here
Throw in a bowl and mix:
- Chopped up purple pyaaj (onion)
- Sliced golberra (tomato)
- About two coursani (chili peppers), chopped
- Freshly squeezed kaagati (lemon) juice
- Noon (salt) *to taste
- Coursaniko dhulo (red pepper powder) *to taste
- Crushed up Wai Wai noodles
- Bujiya (puffed rice)
- *Optional: pieces of boiled potato, roasted chickpeas, roasted soybeans
Yummmm.
Today is International Women’s Day. So please take a moment to think of and pray for the women of Nepal, who have taken permanent residence in my heart.
*top left: These radiant girls live in the Balkhu slum and were very eager to practice their English with me.
top middle: Niru is a tailor and she and her daughter Nija are two of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met.
top right: two young Newar girls sitting with their mothers during their Bel Biwa ceremony (marriage to the Bel fruit). This is the first of their three marriages.
bottom left: A woman selling flower garlands at Kathmandu Durbar Square.
center: A woman who lives in the Balkhu slum. She was very curious about me and no one knew who she was. When I went back outside to ask, she’d disappeared and I never saw her again.
center right: A beggar woman with her baby on the steps of the “monkey temple”, or Swayambhunath Stupa.
bottom right: A lovely girl at the slum kids’ meeting. She had such a pure, innocent face, and the most beautiful eyelashes.
Photography by BrookR
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Kathmandu, Nepal.
#Kathmandu #Nepal #streetphotography #photography #chrisrigoni #chrisrigonitattooer
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