The Living Goddess: A Journey Into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree

The Living Goddess: A Journey Into the Heart of Kathmandu

Isabella Tree

384 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction religion travel adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and protect its people. To Nepalis she is the embod...

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