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Kathmandu Mahadev Darshan

Photographs from the road, the kora and the lake.

  • The main gate of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, its sign reading Shri Pashupatinath Mandir beneath a painted panel of Shiva holding his trident, with Ganesh painted to the left of the doorway
  • Priests in saffron holding up tiered brass oil lamps, every wick alight, during the evening aarti on the Bagmati at Pashupatinath
  • Dusk over the Bagmati at Pashupatinath, cremation fires burning on the ghats across the river and smoke drifting past the temple roofs
  • Bhaleshwor Mahadev Temple on the top of Chandragiri, its two-tiered pagoda roof rising behind a gilded Nandi and the ridge-top courtyard, with clouds over the hills beyond
  • Snow peaks of the Himalaya just showing above a bank of cloud beyond the green hills, seen from Chandragiri
  • The two-tiered roof of Bhaleshwor Mahadev Temple on Chandragiri, a gilded trident on its pinnacle and a gilded Nandi in the courtyard below
  • A small open-air shrine at Chandragiri of standing stones daubed with red powder, iron tridents hung with sacred threads and a bell, marigold petals scattered at their feet
  • Two riders in helmets on sky cycles crossing a cable high above the trees at Chandragiri under a grey sky
  • Forested ridges falling away below Chandragiri towards the valley, a line of cloud along the horizon under a blue sky
  • The gilded roof of the main Pashupatinath shrine at dusk, rising behind red-painted temple buildings where people stand along a balcony
  • Three sadhus in saffron and yellow robes with painted foreheads and long strings of beads, each raising a hand, standing by the river at Pashupatinath in the evening
  • A priest in saffron raising a smoking incense burner and ringing a bell during the evening aarti on the Bagmati at Pashupatinath
  • Incense sticks and a small fire of offerings burning on a stone incense stand at Pashupatinath, smoke curling in front of the temple wall
  • The Pashupatinath temple complex in Kathmandu, its tiered roofs and white shrines standing above the still green water of the Bagmati
  • The stone cremation ghats along the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath at first light, smoke rising past the temple roofs behind
  • The gilded tiered roof of the main Pashupatinath shrine above its white courtyard walls in Kathmandu
  • A pagoda shrine and painted gateway inside the Pashupatinath courtyard, its steps running down towards the river
  • A funeral pyre burning on a stone platform hung with marigold garlands beside the Bagmati at Pashupatinath, people sitting on the steps above