NEPAL – A CARPET COUNTRY |
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The art of weaving is an old tradition in the kingdom of Nepal.
Inhabitants of hills and mountains of Nepal have been traditionally
producing local variants of carpets - called Radi and Pakhi -
which are even today famous amongst not only the Nepalese but
also quite many foreigners.
Many
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| DEVELOPMENT
OF CARPET |
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Specialties of Nepalese carpet |
a. A complete handmade
status known in the world market.
b. Use of quality
raw materials.
c. Long durability
due to double knotting technique used in the weaving (knotting)
process.
d. Good resilient
property.
e. Adoptability in
any size and color. Many
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| BOUDHANATH |
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| A
WORLD HERITAGE SITE |
| Introduction |
| Boudhanath
Stupa, situated about five kilometers north east of the city
centre of Kathmandu is the biggest stupa in Nepal in terms of
height and expansion. |
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The stupa is known as khasti chaitya, khasau chaitya and khasa
chaitya the Tibetan name of the chaitya is JYARUNG KHASYOR.
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| Historical
background |
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Up till now, authentic and evidential source has not been yet
found about when and who had laid down the foundation stone
of Boudhanath Stupa. In an ancient time of thagata kashyap's
(Holy Sung) period there was a poor girl Jyajima in Magat village
of Nepal. the girl Jyajima gave birth four sons by four different
persons . With the help of her four sons she collected too much
wealth for doing some marvellous things on this hollyland |
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Jyajima wanted to build a stupa then she went to recent king
with respect for the permission. After hearing her request the
king grant a piece of land to build the stupa. When mother Jyajima
got the land she started to build the stupa. Mother Jyajima
died after four years during under construction of the stupa.
Before her death, she ordered her four sons that " Four of you
should complete this stupa." During her death the stupa was
erected upto the dumba level. After her death, her four sons
had completed above the bumba level. In this way the construction
of this holly stupa was completed. |
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| Art
culture and Relegious Aspects |
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The stupa stands over three-tiered platform raised over the
crossed rectangles in order to bring the yantra from. It is
really beautiful and grand in architecture, as in stupa architecture.
This stupa also has got vairochana at the centre followed by
Achhyobhya, Padma Sambhava, Amitabh and Padma Amoghasiddi in
east, west, south, and north directions respectively. Similarly,
there are one hundred and eight small niches all around the
stupa accommodation, the icons of the Buddha's conjoint figures
in erotic poses. Likewise at the bottom level, it is surrounded
with three praying wheels embossed with the famous mantra OM
MANI PADME HUM fixed in more than hundred and forty niches |
| Boudhanath
is one of the most sacred places of the buddists. For Tibetan
Buddhist, it is even more scared and therefore more crowed by
the Tibetan Lamas than other Buddhist sites. During Losar festival
many Tbetan visit the place for pilgrimage. Entire Stupa and
all it's sorroundings is decorated and lit during this festival.
This is the New Year's Day festival of Tibetan and falls on
half January and First half of February each year. The elders
bless the Youngers during this festival. Another important event
in Boudhanath is the twelve - year festival organized once every
twelve-year. It is believed that it took twelve years. To complete
the stupa and this festival is organized to commemorate that
event, and thus organized after every twelve years. There is
a tradition of taking the chariot of Mhyazima round the Bouddha
area with the religious procession of full Moon Day of Mahga
(jan-feb) each year. In the same way on the Buddha Jayanti (on
fullmoon day of May-June) day also the procession takes place
but thistime with the icons of lord Buddha on a chariot. On
the full moon day of Janai Purnima (Aug-Sep) the stupa is decorated
with flags and lit the immortal lamps inside the Bouddha Ghyang
.The lamp should not be extinguished. In case, if it is extinguished
it should be lit with another lamp brought either from Bajrayogini
temple in sankhu. The tradition is called "Mharme Lhakhang"
in Tibetan language |
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| Listing
in the world Monument List |
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UNESCO World heritage Committee convened in Cairo in 1979 accepted
and approved the proposal of Nepal and enlisted Bouddhanath
stupa in the world heritage list and it has become the property
of world heritage. Now, which enhanced the importance of the
area. |
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