Pagoda style : nepal tourism

The Pagoda Style of Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, ese architecture marks a singularly distinctive attainment by earlier Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, ese generations a style of temples that are made of bricks and woods above which rises a series of one to five progressively diminishing hipped roofs. Normally a plinth consisting of one to five tiers and with profusely ornamented struts or other carvings, some pagoda style roofs are gold gilted too. Like the well known Pashupatnath temple in Kathmandu. A semi circular Torana (tympanum) is often mounted over the main entrance, occasionally depicting a Garuda holding serpents and flanked on either sides by a metallic Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, ese national flag.

The stupa is a hemispherical mound serving as a monumental shrine with stone Buddha image tugged into niches around the base and with a cubical tower atop the mound bearing four pairs of mystic all seeing eyes facing four directions. Like the well known Swayambhu Nath and Boudha Nath stupa at Namura near Panauti, most of their towers are further surmounted by a spire of successively diminishing rings of burnished metal culminating in a gilded umbrella. The stupas Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, as early as in the 3rd century B.C.

The third but less commonly seen architecture is the curvilinear or pyramidial tower known as the Shikara. The three storeyed stone temple known as Krishna Mandir at Mahabharat scenes also carved in stone is better known example of the Shikahara architectural style in Nepal, the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, , the beautiful country, tourist based country, .