KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kumari, a young girl who is revered by both Hindus and Buddhists in Nepal as a living goddess, left her temple palace and was driven around the center of the capital in a ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The revered living goddess is not leaving her temple this year. The old palace courtyard packed with hundreds of thousands of people each year during the Indrajatra festival is ...

The name is pretty grisly. But these annual or semi-annual festivals, which involve yak blood and take place high in the mist-wrapped highlands of... "Blood-drinking festival." Reading those words, it ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal's capital on Wednesday to celebrate one of the country's biggest religious festivals. In the Bankali ...

The festival has been timed to coincide with Indra Jatra, one of Nepal's most significant cultural festivals dedicated to the god of rain and the harvest season. Organisers believe aligning the art ...

Nepal, Aug. 19 -- In 2018, Rishikesh Pandey published an interesting research paper in Quest, entitled "Religion, Rainfall and Rice: Social, Ecological Interpretation of Festivals in Kathmandu Valley, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hindu holy men and mostly young devotees openly puffed on cannabis smoke on Sunday, marking one of Nepal’s biggest annual festivals. Tens of thousands lined up to pray at the ...