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Last additions - Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu |
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Mar 09, 2008
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Mar 09, 2008
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Mar 09, 2008
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crowds of people were gathered here in the dark to watch these religious performersMar 09, 2008
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looking down onto the cremation from the other side of the ghat, surrounded by death, life, music and dancing all at the same timeMar 09, 2008
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Mar 09, 2008
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not much left of the body at this point Mar 09, 2008
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after a while, people from the crowd started jumping into the performance area & dancing like mad. men, women -they were in a trancelike state. "trance" now conjures something so different, it's hard to convey the intensity of the momentMar 09, 2008
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some religious performance was going on - devotional songs and music, sadhus hanging out, and some frenzied frenetic dancingMar 09, 2008
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the temple complex is old and sprawling. this is looking across the narrow Bagmati river from the Arya Ghat to the terrace of the temple on the other bankMar 09, 2008
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We went to Kathmandu's Pashupatinath temple at dusk, not expecting to really see much, everyone goes during the day. however, it turned out to be quite an amazing experience not possible to convey in these photosMar 09, 2008
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Cremation. i'd never been this close to a human body being burnt. it was so ordinary and surreal at the same timeMar 09, 2008
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