Buddhism & Hinduism - Nepal

Sadhus - Hindu Holy Men.

Swayambhunath - the most important Buddhist stupa in Nepal.

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Prayer wheels - always spun clockwise for good luck.

Hindu woman sitting on the steps of a temple in front of guilded doors.

Hindu priest presiding over a rice feeding ceremony where a baby at approximately 5 months is first fed rice after only having breast milk.

Young Hindu girl engaging in a marriage ceremony to a piece of fruit. At approximately age 11 she marry the sun, and thus be prepared for her final marriage to a man at age 18.

Hindu woman in front of a local temple.

Buddhist monk sitting in contemplation.

Cremation Ghats on the bank of the Bagmati River.

Ancient wood carvings on the struts of the Erotic Temple in Kathmandu Durbar Square.