Mero Dhangadhi

arjuna-vallabha:

Temple door, Nepal

To the people who sent me a message to post their GoFundMe campaign to go to Nepal and help rebuild it: I will not be posting it on this blog or any other blog. I believe rather than raising money for someone to travel from the West, you can just donate that money (usually in thousands of dollars) to an institution in Nepal that already has people on ground working at rebuilding. Volunteering is great but if you’re raising and spending thousands of dollars from donations on tickets, then I’m not sure it’s the best way of going about it. I’m sure you guys have good intentions and really do want to help rebuild Nepal, I have no doubt about that, but I cannot post your message.

theworldonfilmm:

Everest region.

mimosauniverse:

Buddha eyes - Soyambhunath Temple - Nepal

When this temple was founded about 2.000 years ago, Katmandu Valley was filled with a great lake. According to the Buddhist legend, a single perfect lotus grew in the center of the lake. When the Bodhissatva Manjuri  drained the lake with a slash of his sword, the lotus flower settled on the top of the hill and magically transformed  into the stupa. Thus it is know as the self-created (Soyambhu) stupa.

nextecuiltentetl:

Limbu woman from Nepal

parelima:

Dalit: A Quest for Dignity 

5PM | TUESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2016

PATAN MUSEUM INNER COURTYARD

“The struggle for dignity fundamentally shapes the dalit experience in Nepal. The caste system in Nepal worked by not only maintaining material inequality between the upper castes and lower castes but also by ritualizing honor and humiliation as everyday practice. The legacy of this brutality against dalits in Nepali social life can, even today, debilitate the official commands of law and the state to end caste discrimination. Against this history, dalits in Nepal struggle to break the identity of untouchability that the hegemony of upper castes thrusts on them.Since the start of the democratic movement in Nepal, dalit activists have worked to create a counterpublic, a space from which the exclusion of dalits from public life can be challenged. The quest for basic human dignity is critical to the dalit counterpublic as it aims to overturn the very moral ground by which one understands the problem of caste. It shifts the focus from what dalits are deprived of to what dalits inherently possess. The dalit identity stands for the values of equality, respect, and social justice.Presented here is a photographic anthology of the various meanings of dignity for Nepali dalits. These photographs bear testimony to the history of social, economic, political and intellectual disadvantage that dalits are up against. But they also show how dalits make resource of their own cultural pasts for a new and respectable identity.This exhibition will run through Photo Kathmandu and be on view until 26 November 2016.” nepalpicturelibrary