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This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in Nepal for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location. Kapilbastu District [ edit ]
Koliya, Nawalparasi District of Nepal; Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal; Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal; Namo Buddha - Kavrepalanchok District (place where the Bodhisattva offered his body to a tigress.) Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur, Nepal; Halesi-Maratika Caves (venerated site of Buddhist & Hindu pilgrimage), Khotang, District in Nepal
Maya Devi temple and ruins of ancient monasteries. Maya Devi temple houses the marker stone and the nativity sculpture related to the birth of Gautama Buddha.The ancient Maya Devi temple was built during the visit of emperor Ashoka in Lumbini around 249 BC using burnt bricks to safeguard the marker stone and nativity sculpture [7] The radiocarbon dating of the posthole alignments from the ...
Phamting Vajrayogini temple. This temple, dedicated to Vajrayogini, is located on the side of the hill between the Yanglesho caves and the town of Pharping.It is one of the main Newar Buddhist Vajrayogini temples of the Nepal mandala which include the Sankhu Vajrayogini, Vidhyeshvari Vajrayogini, Phamting Vajrayogini, Guhyeshwari and the Pulchowk Khagayogini temples.
The Namo Buddha Stupa houses his bone relics and is considered one of the three most important pilgrimage sites and main stupas in the Kathmandu Valley. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Connected to the stupa by a stairway rising into the woods is the site where the prince was actually eaten, sanctified adjacent to the grounds of the Karma Kagyu tradition's Namo ...
The most important places in Buddhism are located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of southern Nepal and northern India. This is the area where Gautama Buddha was born, lived, and taught, and the main sites connected to his life are now important places of pilgrimage for both Buddhists and Hindus. Many countries that are or were predominantly ...
The Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery or Namo Buddha Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery about 40 km (by road) southeast of Nepal's capital city Kathmandu and 2.3km from Manegaun, a Tamang village. It lies at the top of the hill in Namobuddha Municipality. The monastery is a center for tourism.
It was built around 1650AD and is one of the popular Buddhist pilgrimage site in Kathmandu, Nepal. [1] [2] The stupa is also called Shree Gha-Shanti Ghat Bhajradhatu Mahachaitya [3] or Kathesimbhu stupa or Kashi Swayambhu. [4] The main stupa is surrounded by smaller chaityas inscriptions, statutes and an ancient cloister similar to Tibetan ...