Sunday, October 3, 2010

Notes from Nepal

Pashupatinath cremations...

I suppose I will keep this one short as a picture says a thousand words.

The cremations in Pashupatinath take place on the Bhagmati River, a Nepali tributary of the Ganges. Although other cremation process take the bone and pound it to a fine dust, I did not see this happen at Pashupatinath, but rather the dust and fragment going directly into the river. Children wash and play in the river as the remains of the bodies are burned the returned to the river.