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BuddhismBoudhanath Stupa
Kathmandu · Nepal · stupa
The largest spherical stupa in Nepal, its all-seeing Buddha eyes watching over the kora walked daily by the Tibetan Buddhist community of Boudha, the heart of Vajrayana practice in the Kathmandu Valley.
BuddhismLumbini
Lumbini · Nepal · pilgrimage site
The birthplace of the Buddha, where the Maya Devi Temple shelters the marker stone at the exact birth spot and Ashoka's pillar of 249 BCE still reads: here the Buddha was born.