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The road from Kathmandu to Patan passes an Ashoka stupa (one of four in Patan) and brings you to Jawalakhel and the Tibetan Cooperative.
At sunset, when the burnished gold atop the stupa begins to glow with a warm buttery light, the terrace surrounding Swayambhunath offers a fine view over the Kathmandu Valley.
Other temples of significant interest and variety are Big Bell Temple (Dazhongsi), with China’s leading collection of antique bells; Temple of the White Pagoda (Baitasi), with its newly renovated 13th century Tibetan stupa, China’s largest; Five Pagoda Temple (Wutasi), decorated with Indian-influenced sculptures; and White Clouds Daoist Temple (Baiyuanguan), where Beijingers of all ages crowd in to pray for good fortune at a variety of most unusual shrines.
The most photographed element of this vast establishment is the stupa, a slightly crooked 13-level pagoda.
The women are also responsible for one other characteristic of Indian “architecture” — cow-dung patties which are preserved and kept for fuel and artfully shaped into mounds with shapes that differ from region to region, some of them resembling a Buddhist stupa, a Hindu gopuram, or even a Moslem minaret.