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Nepal - Land of Heaven: Birth Place of the 'Supreme Master'

Bhaktapur - Birth Place of the 'Supreme Master' Dattatreya Dattatreya Temple is a three story pagoda style temple built in 1428 by King Yaksha Malla. It is said that this temple was built from a single piece of wood from one tree. Add caption As my flight lands I made way out to grab a quick lunch and get ready to head to offer my humble obeisance unto this great divinity for blessing me to visit his birthplace and being able to transcribe into finite language, in the confines of limited vocabulary, the infinite glory and effulgence of the “Guru Principle”, “Master of all Gurus” or Adi Guru (First Teacher) in this Universe my Master’s Master – “Lord Dattatreya” who was born in “Bhaktapur” refer to “The City of Devotees”, why would it not be so, where the unified manifestation of the Supreme Trinity – Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh collectively known as the Trimurti appeared. The name Dattatreya can be divided into two words - "Datta" (meaning given) and "

Nepal - Land of Heaven: Birth Place of the 'Lord of Nothingness'

Lumbini - Birth Place of the Lord of Nothingness 'Gautama Buddha' According to the ancient history Lumbini in Sanskrit refers to 'lovely' , which is the pilgrimage site of Buddhist located at Kapilavastu in Nepal. This place is based on one of the four major events in Buddha's life and very interestingly it is believed each of these event have taken place under the trees. The three other places which is in India are: Bodh Gaya (Buddha attained Enlightenment), Sarnath (Budhha gave his first discourse), and Kushinagar (Buddha died). As per the tradition of Buddhist the story goes like this, Yashodhara (Maya Devi) feels the onset of the labor pains and gives birth to Buddha on the journey to her parent's home in Devadaha in the year 642 BC in the month of May. During her labor pain she grabs hold of the branches of Sal tree where Siddhartha Gautama Buddha is born. The marker stone in the picture where Buddha was after his mother stepped

Nepal - Land of Heaven: Mountain Flight

Mountain Flight to 'Abode of Gods' The term "Himalaya" - a Sanskrit word meaning "the Abode of Snow" - was coined by the ancient Indian pilgrims who have travelled in these mountains since time immemorial. The Hindu pilgrim routes, the low valleys that abruptly rise up in high mountain ranges, the lovely trekking routes, densely forested areas lying just a mountain range away from barren cold deserts, and the lovely people of the mountains - these are some of the reasons why people have been so fascinated by the Indian Himalayas. To the Hindus this great grandfather-like figure has always been an abode of gods. So they referred to the Himalayas as devatma or God-souled. Heaven of Spiritual Practices the western Himalayas teems with esteemed pilgrimages so much so that the entire Kumayun range can be called tapobhumi or land of spiritual practices. Where else apart from Kailash and Manas-sarovar in the Himalayas could an all-abnegating Shiv

Nepal - Land of Heaven: My first Impression, Swayambhunath Temple

Journey began: My first impression as Nepal Welcomes & Visit to Swayambhunath Temple I know not until a month before I was working on the itinerary for Nepal, as to why it was decided that I am traveling to Nepal!?! Then comes the revelation which hit me flat on my face, I was in tears and felt truly blessed having discovered the greatness of this place before I could visit. Let me unravel it to you as I proceed. It was a very beautiful beginning of the winter morning seated in my flight restless and my heart beating fast as I took off to the “ landlocked” country . As I exited the flight and made my way out to the immigration I was feeling very proud of holding an Indian Passport, when I got to learn that I need not stand in the long queue which was for Westerners and could go straight in a separate queue just as the locals… And just before that as I walked into corridor of the Airport the first welcome board which reads: “Welcome to Nepal, everything in Nepal takes

Nepal - Land of Heaven: History

Unveiling the The Land of Heaven which is blessed with birth of the great divinities of all times “Supreme Guru and the Lord of Nothingness” – A visual retreat of Nepal!! History of Nepal According to the Skanda Purna or the Legends mentions that a sage called 'or ‘Nemuni’ lived in penance on the confluence of the Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers. He was the sole advisor of the king. So, the word 'Nepal' was derived from the name of the sage 'Ne'. According to Hindu belief , the history of the development of Nepalese civilization and culture can be traced back to the Age of truth. King Manu, who is said to be the first King of the world ruled Nepal in the Age of Truth (Sat Yuga) and Nepal was known as the Land of Truth (Satyawati). It was called the land of solitary meditation and penance (Tapovan) in the Silver Age (Treta Yuga). Similarly, Nepal was known as the ladder of salvation (Muktisopan) in the Copper Age (Dwapar Yuga); and it is known as 'Nepal