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Boudhanath in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in Nepal for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location.
Muktinath is an ancient Vishnu temple located in Mustang, Nepal.The temple of Muktinath, known as 'the lord of liberation', is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists whom they worship as an abode of Hindu deity Vishnu and Buddhist deity Avalokiteśvara respectively.
The World Peace Pagoda was built by Japanese Buddhists for about US$1 million; near the stupa is the gravestone of a monk who was murdered by an anti-Buddhist group while the building was being built. [12] The Ramagrama stupa contains the relics of the Buddha and it remains untouched in its original form. [13]
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
There are many more caves associated with Milarepa in Tibet and Nepal. There is the Milarepa Cave in Gandaki, Nepal on the Annapurna Circuit just outside of the town of Manang. Another notable one is close to Lar in the Tsum Valley at the border with Tibet, 28.52°N / 85.08°E, alt 3330 m. It features the print in rock of Milarepa's foot.
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In Nepal, the majority of people identify as Hindu. However, Buddhist influences are prevalent in most aspects of the culture of Nepal to an extent that Buddhist and Hindu temples are shared places of worship for peoples of both faiths so that, unlike in other countries, the distinction between Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal is not always clear.
To this day, Ramagrama stupa remains the only intact and original stupa containing relics of Buddha. [2] Even so, no relics have yet been found by archeological excavations.Because,according to sources such as Mahavamsa,Thupavamsa-Great Chronicals of Sri Lanka,Sources of Theravada Buddhism such as Sri Lankan Sources,South east Asian Sources; the relics of Ramagrama Sthupa were received in Sri ...