Pharping
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Pharping (or Phamting) is a small Newar town lying above the Bagmati river on the southern edge of the Kathmandu valley, about 23 km from the capital. It is now part of the Dakshinkali Municipality.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Dakshinkali
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45
- Image
- Pharping-36-Landschaft-2007-gje.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pharping
- located in/on physical feature
- Kathmandu Valley
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Buddhist pilgrimage places
- Phamting Vajrayogini temple
- Yanglesho cave
- Asura cave
- Buddhist monasteries
- Neydo Tashi Chöling Monastery
- Palyul Samten Ösel Ling
- Tegchen Leksheyling Retreat Centre
- Hindu temples
- Dakshinkali Temple
- Setidevi Temple
- Sheshnarayan Temple
- Pharping hydropower station
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Pharping (or Phamting) is a small Newar town lying above the Bagmati river on the southern edge of the Kathmandu valley, about 23 km from the capital. It is now part of the Dakshinkali Municipality.
The town and its environs is the site of several important Buddhist pilgrimage sites as well as a number of Buddhist monasteries and meditation retreat centres.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pharping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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