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बौद्धनाथ
Kathmandu, Bagmati · 27.7215°, 85.3620°
One of the largest stupas in the world, its all-seeing eyes gazing down the old Lhasa trade road — for centuries the last great shrine of Tibetan merchants leaving the valley and the first of those arriving. Ringed by gompas of every Tibetan lineage, it is the heart of Nepal's Tibetan community; its dome, cracked in the 2015 earthquake, was rebuilt by 2016 entirely from devotees' gold and donations.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The poultry-woman Jadzima, granted 'as much land as a buffalo hide covers', cut the hide to threads and enclosed the great circle — kings could not retract the boon, and her sons' rebirth-vows, the Tibetans say, ripened as the great dharma-kings and abbots who carried Buddhism to Tibet.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-26 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Licchavi
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Opening the line…