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Credit: Jenny_Kim / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Session: Water Scarcity: From the Wetlands to the Water Glass
PARTICIPANTS:
Jane Madgwick, Chief Executive Officer, Wetlands International
Mahadev Raman, Arup Fellow | Chairman Americas Region, Arup
Achim Steiner, Executive Director , United Nations Environment Programme
Robert Zimmerman, Senior Manager of Sustainability, Kohler Co.
FACILITATORS:
Ravi Chhatpar, Co-Founder and Principal, Dalberg’s Design Impact Group
Robert Fabricant, Co-Founder and Principal, Dalberg’s Design Impact Group
Charak Puja is a very enchanting folk festival of the Southern Belt of Bangladesh and West Bengal. It is also known as "Nil Puja". The believers of the Hindu religion celebrate this on the last day of Chaitra (Chaitra Songkranti).
People believe that the festival will carry prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year. The festival is actually a festival to satisfy "Lord Shiva", the great "Debadideb" of Hindu Religion. Though the festival takes place on the mid night of Chaitra Songkranti, the preparation phase usually starts before one month of the day.
The arrangement team of the festival go from village to village to procure the necessary components like paddy, oil, sugar, salt, honey, money and other items with the arranged cosmetics such as Shiva, Parvati and Narod. The cosmetic Shiva is locally called "Nil Pagol" or "Jal Katha". On midnight of the Songkranti, the worshippers are gathered together to worship the God and after Puja the "Prosad" is distributed.
In one place, it is also known as "Hajrha Puja". The woman doesn't take the meal before Puja on this day. Sometimes in this festival a human "Charak" is made ready to satisfy the Lord Shiva. The "Charak" is tied with a hook (Borshi) on his back and then he is moved around a bar with a long rope. Though it is risky, they arrange it
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Credit: Jenny_Kim / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Session: Water Scarcity: From the Wetlands to the Water Glass
PARTICIPANTS:
Jane Madgwick, Chief Executive Officer, Wetlands International
Mahadev Raman, Arup Fellow | Chairman Americas Region, Arup
Achim Steiner, Executive Director , United Nations Environment Programme
Robert Zimmerman, Senior Manager of Sustainability, Kohler Co.
FACILITATORS:
Ravi Chhatpar, Co-Founder and Principal, Dalberg’s Design Impact Group
Robert Fabricant, Co-Founder and Principal, Dalberg’s Design Impact Group
Worlds's TALLEST LORD SHIVA STATUE LOCATED IN NEPAL. 143 FEET HIGH LOCATED IN SANGA,NEPAL. MADE BY MR.KAMAL JAIN.
Near Curca Spring
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Kirateshwar Mahadev Temple is a Hindu temple, identified to be a Hindu pilgrimage site which is located at Legship, West Sikkim, India along the banks of River Rangeet., which has many mythological episodes of the Mahabharata attached to it. The temple is also known as Kirateshwar Mahadev Thaan or simply known as Shiv Mandir by the local people.
MAIN ATTRACTION
The main attraction of the temple are the festival of the Bala Chaturdesi, which is observed in November-December every year and the Shiv Ratri also known as Maha Shivaratri which falls in the month of February or March every year. There are other temples dedicated to Lord Rama and Durga can be found here making it an important pilgrimage destination for Hindus.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
According to the Hindu mythology, pleased with Arjuna's hard penance and devotion, Lord Shiva appeared before him in the very spot where the temple lies as a Kirat or hunter and blessed him with success in the Mahabharat War. Long time ago as the people found miraculously existed a stone manifesting Shiva Ling. The said Shiv Ling is the main effigy of worship. Belief of many that a mere visit with true devotion to this temple fulfills one’s wishes particularly a wish for son or daughter and also wishes for peace harmony and good health.
WIKIPEDIA
A selfie in front of the replica Pashupatinath Temple in the Bhaktapur Durbar Square in Bhaktapur, Nepal. This temple is a replica of the original Pashupatinath Temple at Kathmandu. (see my Kathmandu album- I could not photograph the original from close quarters due to entry and photography restrictions there). This replica Pashupatinath temple in Bhaktapur is also known as the Yaksheswar Mahadev temple More notes about this replica Pashupatinath temple appeared earlier in this album. (see previous picture). I do not recall my local Bhaktapur guide mentioning the name of this temple, probably as my main guide had told him about my limited interest in temples. Thank goodness I found this information later, online. (Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Nepal, Oct/ Nov 2019)
Pissed enough as I was, thanks to my not being to appreciate the natural beauty of the Gupteshwar Mahadev cave in Pokhara Nepal, thanks to the locals having made a temple out of it, resulting in much religious fanfare and hullabaloo, and photography restrictions, with the never ending stream of visitors and the sheer bedlam inside the cave adding to my irritation, adding to my woes was the fact that It was pretty steep back climbing up to ground level. The heavy dSLR around my neck was only making matters worse. I was completely out of steam- I don't do well with stairs and steep climbs anyway My good guide tries to humour me by taking this shot of me huffing and puffing my way back up the stairs. (Pokhara, Nepal, Oct/ Nov. 2019)
Gokarna is a village development committee in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 7,508 with 1,768 households.
In the village on the banks of the Bagmati River stands the Gokarna Mahadev temple. It is one of the oldest temple in Nepal contemporary to the Changu Narayan Temple. This temple is of great historical, cultural and archeological importance. It is built in the Newari pagoda style with three tiers and is dedicated to Shiva in the form of Mahadev, the Great God.
Worth the mention and the main reason to go to this temple is the wealth of sculptures of the many different Hindu deities. These fine stone carvings are definitely worth a closer look. Some of them are dated back to the Licchavi Dynasty (C 450–750).
We can explore:
Aditya - the sun god
Brahma and Chandra - the moon god
Indra - the elephant-borne god of war and weather
Ganga - with a pot on her head from which pours the Ganges
Vishnu - as Narsingha
Shiva - as Kamadeva, the god of love - and many other forms
Gauri Shankar - with elements of Shiva and Parvati
Brahma - with four heads
In late August or early September people go to this temple to bath and make offerings in honor of their fathers, living or dead, on a day called Gokarna Aunsi.