Two Buddhist Monks at Nyatapola Temple in Bhaktapur

 

Nyatapola Temple in 1998

I've been to Taumadhi Square 25 years ago, sitting one the second floor of a tea house and watching  someone selling goats on the square or a theatre group playing for the public. And I also saw a Japanese zen buddhist monk coming down the stairs of Nyatapola Temple [1].

The Japanese monk coming down the stairs in 1998

Selling goats in 1998

A theatre play performed on Taumadhi Square - 1998

This year I returned to Taumadhi Square and was sitting and drinking tea on the second floor of  another café oberlooking the square. No one selling goats anymore. But people were busy preparing the floats for a yatra, maybe the Indra Yatra. A band manned and womened the  stairs of Nyatapola Temple. And there he was – the buddhist monk, but now it was one dressed in Tibetan style.

The Tibetan monk coming down the stairs

The band preparing to play

Preparing a float for the yatra

Links and Annotations:
[1] Nyatapola Temple is a hinduistic temple and also the tallest temple of Nepal. It has been built in 1702 and has survived all earthquakes including the one in April 2015 with a magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyatapola_Temple

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