Bhaktapur

Bhaktapur - of bhakta , excessively pious person and will pura , the city - or Bhadgaon - or Khwopa in Newari - is a city of the Nepal located in the zone of Bagmati, with 13 kilometers in the east of Kathmandou and with: 1401 meters of altitude. The city counted: 61405 inhabitants in 1991. Its current population is evaluated with: 165000 inhabitants.

The city was rested by the king Ananda Deva Malla at the 12th century. Initially, it would have been built according to a outline drawing of conch, and under the name of Khwopa , to become the capital of the Râja S Malla which succeeded the dynasty of the Thâkurî. Chart more vraisemblabe, that of a mandala where the city is included in a “magic triangle” formed by three temples of Ganesh outside the city. This triangle is supposed to protect it symbolically. Until the 16th century, Bhaktapur dominated politically and economically all the Nepal. It maintained this position until the conquest gorkha in 1769. Since this time, Bhaktapur always constituted a world with share, with an economic autarky but also a wild independence.

The majority of the elderly do not include/understand the Nepâlî. Their language is the Newari, purest that one can find with the Nepal. The architecture and the organization of the city reveal all art Newar of planning. The districts ( sheets ) are articulated around a central place with a well or a public source and appointed religious furnace bridges. These sheets is also used to protect the products from harvests. In the past, the city had acquired its importance thanks to its privileged position on the axis India-Tibet. The taxes imposed on the goods brought a great richness to him. Called a long time “the city of the excessively pious people”, it also knew to preserve its religious character, because all is governed there by the gods.

Quotation

“There is something of unreal in the buildings in which one is. One with the impression to be reproduced on the scene of a theater, in the middle of the decorations. One expects to hear a whistle and to see emerging from the machinists who suddenly will remove these fantastic palates and these temples”
Alexandra David-Néel, In the middle of Himalayas

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