Destination Kathmandu

For many people, stepping off a plane into Kathmandu is an exhilarating shock - the sights, sounds and smells can quickly lead to sensory overload. Whether it be buzzing around the crazy polluted traffic in a taxi, trundling down the narrow winding streets of the old town in a rickshaw, marvelling at Durbar Sq or dodging the tiger balm sellers and trekking touts in Thamel, Kathmandu can be an intoxicating, amazing and exhausting place.
As the largest (and pretty much the only) city in the country, Kathmandu also feels like another developing-world city rushing into a modern era of concrete and traffic pollution. Take a walk in the backstreets, however, and the capital's amazing cultural and artistic heritage reveals itself in hidden temples overflowing with marigolds, courtyards full of drying chillis and rice, and tiny hobbit-sized workshops largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
Kathmandu has been a travellers mecca since the 1960s but these days you're less likely to see a tie-dyed hippy in search of enlightenment than a well-heeled Gore-Tex-clad tourist in search of a good espresso. With tourist numbers down and political tensions up, the last few years have been uncertain, yet residents have retained a good-humoured self-respect.
Kathmandu is well worth a week of your time, but it's too easy to spend too much time stuck in touristy Thamel. Enjoy the Internet cafés, the Western music and the lemon cheesecake, but make sure you also get out into the 'real Nepal', before your time runs out.

"Buddha"-Light of Asia

In Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey, which is the dark drama of a soul almost lost and at the last minute reprieved, there is a moment when a kind friend gives to the hero a copy of The Light of Asia, saying that it may save him, as it is the life of a good man.
Within the Theosophical tradition, The Light of Asia occupies a definite place. So great was H.P.B.'s appreciation and respect for this book—which is a long poem—that she mentioned in her will that if her students and friends wished to come together and remember her on her death anniversary, they should read from two books—The Bhagavad-Gita and The Light of Asia. Gandhiji said, "I read The Light of Asia with even greater interest than I did the Gita. Once I had begun it, I could not leave off." Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American author, said, "It is a work of great beauty, it tells a story of intense interest which never flags for a moment. Its descriptions are drawn by the hand of the master with the eye of a poet. Its tone is so lofty that there is nothing with which to compare it but the New Testament. It is full of variety—now picturesque, now pathetic, now rising in the noblest realms of thought and aspiration." Such was the response to The Light of Asia, which was originally published in 1879. Edwin Arnold writes in the Preface:

Small history of kailash mansarowar

As long as there have been ancient religions in Asia, there has been a reverence for Mount Kailash. The cosmologies and origin myths of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism each speak of Kailash as the axis mundi - the center and birthplace of the entire world. Kailash is spoken of as the mythical Mt Meru in the Vedas. The mountain was indeed legendary even before the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, were written.
Hindus believe Mount Kailash to be the home of Lord Shiva. According to Sanskrit literature, the immortal Shiva lives atop Kailash where he spends his time practicing yogic austerities with his divine consort, Parvati. For a Hindu, to make the Yatra to Kailash and have the darshan (divine view) of Shiva's home is to attain release from the clutches of ignorance and delusion.
Tibetan Buddhists call the mountain Kang Rimpoche, the 'Precious One of Glacial Snow.' To Jains, Kailash is known as Astapada, the place where Rishaba (the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras) attained liberation. And for followers of Bon, Tibet's pre-Buddhist, shamanistic religion, Kailash is Mount Tise - the site of a 12th century battle between the Buddhist sage Milarepa and the Bon shaman Naro Bon-chung

Releigion of Nepal

Religion in Nepal
In Nepal, religion is not just a set of beliefs and accompanying rituals handed down from generation to generation; rather it is a complex intermingling of traditions, festivals, faiths and doctrines that have permeated every strata of Nepalese Society in such a way as to become the very heartbeat of the nation.
Nepal is famous, as the world's only Hindu Kingdom. However, it is an intricate and beautiful tapestry formed by the interweaving of Hinduism, Buddhism and other beliefs. Religious tolerance and harmony such as is found in Nepal, is perhaps a unique example to the world.
Religions in Nepal are:
1. Hinduism2. Buddhishm3. Tantrism 4. Islam and Christianity

Sur-Sudha image of nepali classical music

The Nepalese trio Sur Sudha came together in the late 1980s for what amounts to a national-cultural mission. They set out to document the varieties of music in Nepal, and, given the remarkable contrasts in the landscape, it's no surprise that Sur Sudha's musical evocations span large distances. The musical highs and lows, though, are all kept within close reach of each other, reminding that Sur Sudha is a spare ensemble, employing only flute (Prem Rana Autari), sitar (Bijaya Vaidya), and tabla (Surendra Shrestha). The tunes here are compact, ranging from just over 5 to around 16 minutes, much in contrast to traditional Indian ragas, which can stretch to near eternity in their balance of drones and cyclic tabla rhythms. Like Indian music, these pieces feature each instrument closely entwined with the others, developing melodic units that spiral at a moderate and measured pace and featuring the sitar in a not-quite-drone role that sponges up the flute tones and wrings them back out in resonating solo segments. Listeners who enjoy standout solos as much as collective improvisations off raags (a musical scale similar to Indian ragas) will enjoy the work Sur Sudha has done to keep the band's direction balanced on an axis of expressive play.

Chitawon National park

This is one of the most popular national parks in Nepal. The park is situated in the sub-tropical lowlands of southern Nepal, lying between two mountain ranges, the Shivalik and the Mahabharat range.
This is the flood plain of three rivers, the Rapti, the Reu and the Narayani. The forest is dominated by Sal trees (shorea robusta) and tall grasses.
This is the natural habitat of endangered animals like Bengal tigers, one-horned rhinoceros, gharial crocodile, gaur (the world's largest wild cattle), four species of deer, leopards, wild dogs, fishing cats, leopard cats, python and Gangetic dolphin. There are over 50 species of mammals and 450 species of birds in the park.
Before 1950, this area used to be the hunting reserve for the ruling class of Nepal. The hereditary prime ministers of the Rana family, who ruled Nepal for 104 years, often used to invite people from England and India as their guests and huge numbers of tigers and rhinos were killed.
Today the tourists can ride elephants and view the wild animals at close range

Nepali film

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Mero bhannu

sabailai namaste

kotha herdachhu andhakar chha yeha !batti nibheko sari,

yesto lagchha ujada pari banama patai jhareko sari .

thake geet guthera ma birahaka samjhi sadhai sanjhama

udnaiko man hunchha pugna kahile meri timi chhau jaha..

hawos ta feri bhetaula

SAGAR

forest in nepal

Nepal is a land of excessive disparities in both climate and geography; giving it has a distinctive topography ranging from lowlands with sub-tropical forests to arctic environment in the Himalayan highlands. The mere 150 kilometers stretch of land rises from near sea level in the south to over 8000 meters in the North. This simultaneously with the monsoon rainfall alongside the south facing slopes, has lead to the compacting of nearly all climate zones that can be located on planet Earth. Nepal as a consequence of these has been endowed with a great diversity of life-zones providing a home for a large variety of plants, birds and animals.The Terai lowlands are distinguished by a belt of well-watered floodplains extending from the Indian boundary northward up to the initial slopes of the Bhabhar as well as the Siwalik Range. It is a rich habitation in the land with tall grasslands combined with riverine and hardwood Sal forest. Wildlife inclusive of musk deer, swamp deer, black buck, the royal Bengal tiger, blue bull, gharial, marsh mugger crocodile as well as the last breed of Asiatic wild buffalo. It is prosperous in birdlife as well.Between 2000 and 3500 meters higher in the north lies the Mahabharat Range with its oak capped crests. The hills of this midland are sheltered by a moist temperate deodar, maple, oak, and even birch forest. The stunning multi-colored lmpeyan pheasant, which is the national bird of Nepal can be located here in

Pashupati temple

History
It is not known for certain when Pashupatinath was founded. Tradition says it was constructed by Pashupreksha of the Somadeva Dynasty in the 3rd century BC, but the first historical records date from the 13th century. The ascetic Pashupata sect was likely related to its foundation.
Pashupati was a tutelary deity of the ancient rulers of the Kathmandu Valley; in 605 AD, Amshuvarman considered himself favored by his touching of the god's feet.
By the later Middle Ages, many imitations of the temple had been built, such as in Bhaktapur (1480), Lalitpur (1566) and Benares (early 19th century). The original temple was destroyed several times until it was given its present form under King Bhupalendra Malla in 1697.
According to a legend recorded in local texts, especially the Nepalamahatmya and the Himavatkhanda, the Hindu god Shiva once fled from the other gods in Varanasi to Mrigasthali, the forest on the opposite bank of the Bagmati River from the temple. There, in the form of a gazelle, he slept with his consort Parvati. When the gods discovered him there and tried to bring him back to Varanasi, he leapt across the river to the opposite bank, where one of his horns broke into four pieces. After this, Shiva became manifest as Pashupati (Lord of Animals) in a four-face (chaturmukha) linga

Mountains of Nepal

Nepal contains part of the Himalaya, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with Tibet or India.
Contrary to popular belief, the height of a mountain is measured from the base to the apex. Mt. Everest stretches 8848 meters above sea level, but it has a head start due to the general uplift from the Himalayas. The Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea is 10,314 meters from base to apex, so even though it only reaches to 4205 meters above sea level, it is a bigger mountain than Everest. (These results only apply to an incorrect manner in which one would measure a mountain. This measurement is based upon how high above sea level the mountains peak is located. The correct way to measure a mountain would be to obtain actual height from base to apex.)

Nepali music

Let us take this opportunity to welcome you all aboard in the world of Nepali Music over the net.
In the course of making this website a very usable website, even by the hands of a novice, we have given every care to make the site very simple to use. We have made this page dynamic, database driven in a fast and most reliable server with a facility of creating a play list of multiple songs of your choice and have it played without you having to click to every song now and then.
We will be adding more songs in a regular basis. We will introduce a personalized system where you can create your account and create your own playlist of songs of your choice and save it to play it whenever you like, regardless of the place where you are.
We will be more than happy to receive your comments and feedback regarding the facilities provided by the website and the songs stored for you. Your suggestions on adding songs and improving the website will be greatly appreciated.
We hope, our joint effort will surely make this website a real pioneer in the world of nepali music over the net.
Thank you and wish you a very happy listening.

comedy

The romantic comedy has long been a staple of American films. It Happened One Night, She Done Him Wrong, The Thin Man, Adam's Rib, Annie Hall, Tootsie. Every year, every generation, a particular film in this genre stands out and speaks to audiences in an engaging, satisfying way. While every film of this type has on the surface as many similarities as differences, there is an underlying dramatic purpose that weaves through these stories.
What is a Romantic Comedy?
A romantic comedy is a dramatic story about romance told with a light, humorous touch. As any writer knows, that simple statement is easy to make, hard to accomplish. An easier place to begin is with the question, why do romantic comedies engage the interest of an audience?
They do this by setting up dramatic issues that revolve around romance. Thus, they can act out that:
true love does exist
there's someone out there just for us, and if we could only find them, we would experience true love
romance can overcome all obstacles

Enviroment

Environments is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-Track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irving S. Teibel for Syntonic Research Inc. between 1970 and 1979. The series consists of recordings of nature sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves and a thunderstorm with falling rain. The series ignited a worldwide interest in field recordings which resulted in literally thousands of imitations being released during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (ie: "Moods", "Solitudes", etc.).
The Environments albums were the first of the many field recordings of nature sounds that became popular as a form of audio entertainment the 1970s,and they were considered definitive enough to have excerpts included on the Voyager Gold Record. The Environments series also presented some of the longest album-sides ever released.