Day 2 Nepal Pilgrimage Trip

Thursday, December 20, 2007

On the 2nd day of our trip, the pick up time from our guest house was 10.00am. The programme for the day was as follows;

1) Visit Patan and see Mahabouddha, the exquisite terracotta temple of the "Thousand Buddhas".
2) Visit the Oldest palace in Nepal
3) Buffet Lunch @ Hotel Yak & Yeti
4) Teaching @ Koppan Monastery by our Precious Guru Venerable Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
5) Visit to Holy child Lama Puntsok Rinpoche (the late Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog’s reincarnation) residence.

We got back to Shambala Guest house around midnight. There was a power outage at our guest house from midnight till4 am.

Mahabouddha
This temple is best known for its superior quality bricked structure. Also, Mahabouddha is the temple which boasts of a long array of thousands of images of Lord Buddha which are engraved in the temple structure. All these artworks are simply excellent to observe. Tourists do appreciate a lot as they visit this travel destination in Patan. Mahabouddha in Patan is a site where you will find a terracotta structure that belonged to the 14th Century. These terracotta structures display Nepalese architectural masterpieces. If you see this image at full size you will see that every brick has the sculpture of buddha.

All the Buddhas one one side of the temple are in the same pose and there are four different poses of buddha on all the four sides. The temple is hidden in a small cramp courtyard, barely visible from the street, it was erected in the 16th century
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Geshela Tenzin Zopa making light offerings and prayers on behalf of the group.
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This message on the wall by His Holiness Dalai Lama caught by attention.
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Such a beuatifully sculptured temple, everyone want to take pictures and videos of it.
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We also circumbulate the stupa 3 times.
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