Who Are the Newar People? The Complete Guide to Kathmandu Valley’s Original Civilization
The Kathmandu Valley was a lake once. This is not mythology geological evidence confirms it. What mythology does is tell you what happened next. According to the Swayambhu Purana, a Buddhist sacred text, a bodhisattva named Manjushri arrived at the rim of the ancient lake, saw a flame of divine light blazing from a lotus in its centre, and cut…