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Buddhist Era 2549 Vesak First Quarter – Friday May 05, 2006

by Ven. Boralesgamuwe Pemaratana

We are all familiar with the human emotions of love, hatred, jealousy, anxiety and so on. Of these anger is a common and powerful emotional experience which everyone feels from time to time. Before we see how to overcome our anger let us see what makes us angry. Generally our minds are dominated by a selfish ego and the need to have everything going our own way. When we feel that our selfish wishes are being frustrated and we are not getting our own way, we may respond by becoming angry. For example, we see many outbursts of rage for various reasons. In our homes husbands and wives express anger towards each other for seemingly minor reasons, such as when they have differences of opinion and ideas. Brothers and sisters may even argue due to disturbing noises of radio or television. The news on television and in the newspapers tells us how labourers cried angrily over their rights. Continue reading »

Right now Nepal government main job is to maintain peace in the country and draft new constitution in time. In every public place meeting the top leaders, members of parliament and ministers have been talking about that they will write down the constitution in time.

In between this there have been many changes, the parliament abolish royal family, made Nepal secular country and many ethnic group started raising voices on what they need.

Anyway we all know about what I mention above. Now let’s talk about the new voice raised by the Communist party of Nepal (Maoist). They want to change the National Flag of Nepal. There have been debates going on about this.

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Sex is no more a taboo subject in our society now. Especially the youngsters have been open towards it. Not just sex, but the way to express their love. We can see them showing it openly.

Few weeks ago there was news from City of Dharan that 7 couples were arrested by the police and they were suggested not to show their love openly in public. Most of these couples are doing their +2.

We can see many couples at Basantpur area sitting around the temples hugging and kissing. The local club started saying it indecent and threaten them saying they will capture those moments of couple and publish in news papers and noticed them not to perform indecent acts.

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I have heard the story about this historical place a lot; I have also seen pictures of it many times, watched it on television and read articles about it. While going through the pictures, I thought it was just a historical place and could not see anything to make myself believe that it is one of the seven wonders of modern world.

When I visited this place I came to know why it is called Seven Wonders of the World. It is not just a token of love from the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to his favorite wife Mumtaz but it can be considered as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Ottoman, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles.

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Visiting ancient places is really fun and educational. You will know about the history of place and people. Red fort is one of the major landmarks of Delhi, India’s capital.

We were lucky that we happened to visit this landmark in the evening. Every evening they have a musical show there. They give a brief history on India and Red fort. It is fun to attend this show. The colorful light gives attractive view of the fort.

Guys if you happen to visit Delhi then don’t miss this show. For now enjoy the pictures that I took.

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This is a unique type of festival that is observed at Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur. It is a Newari cultural program where we can see Newari Musical Drama and Dances. The dances are very ancient. This festival was started by the Malla King of Patan, Siddi Narsingh Malla.

I don’t have much more information on this festival. The last day of Festival is very exciting and important. On the last day we can see a Musical Drama of Hindu Legendary story of Pralad and Narsingh Avatar.

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This year Nepal Sambat has been recognized by Nepal Government. It is big news for the Kathmandu Valley Newars; they have been celebrating this day every year and raising the voice to get official recognization from the government. Here I have tried to capture some wonderful moments how people celebrated this Nepal Sambat New Year 1129 at Basantapur.

I saw some tourist celebrating this festive time with local nears too and some watching it in exciting way. I read in someone’s blog who has visited Nepal saying that Nepal celebrates so many new years. Yeah I think we’re rich in culture and so many ethnic group lives with their own identity and they all have their own New Year.

Some new year we celebrate is

Bikram Sambat – North Indian calendar named after King Bikramaditya. It was adopted by the Shah Kings

Nepal Sambat – Celebrated by the Newars, it is celebrated on the day of Maah Pooja fourth day of tihar. It is said that on this day, a newar Business man Shanka Dhar Sakhwa paid all the debt on behalf of the people of Kathmandu Valley, so the newar started celebrating it as a new life for them. So every year they started celebrating it as a new year.

Loshar – Tibetans, Gurung and Tamang have their own loshar as New Year

International Calendar – January first, this is a new year I think whole world celebrates.

Welcome gate at Basantapur

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