quiquenamib posted a photo:

Unos niños aprendices de monjes juegan con una especie de pelota hecha a base de gomas enrolladas en el monasterio de Swayambhunath, Kathmandú. Nepal.

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jmhullot posted a photo:

The night already fell on Kathmandu. I was back there for the first time since the early 80s, enjoying the sight on Swayambhunath from the rooftop terrace of my hotel, and meditating on the fate of a once paradisiac valley.

According to the legend, the Kathmandu valley was once filled with an enormous lake, out of which grew a lotus. The Buddha Manjuri was so moved by the marvelous sight of Swayambhu that he cut a gorge with his Sword of Wisdom through the mountains surrounding the valley in order to make the site more accessible to human pilgrims. The water rushed out in the newly created Bagmati River, leaving the valley in which Kathmandu now lies. The lotus was transformed into a hill and the flower became the Swayambhunath stupa.

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