Patan, Nepal: When a massive earthquake struck Nepal in April, Nepal's longest-serving "living goddess" was forced to do the unthinkable -- walk the streets for the first time in her life, she told ...

Nepal is a land of mysticism, where a select few pre-pubescent girls from the Newar clan are worshiped as ‘Kumari Devi’ or ‘Virgin Goddess’. According to tradition, Durga (the Hindu goddess of ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters Life!) - Perhaps divine intervention helped. A Nepali girl revered by many as a "living goddess" has become the first sitting deity to pass the high school leaving certificate exam, ...

Last month's earthquake brought much of Kathmandu's historic Durbar Square, a World Heritage Site, tumbling to the ground. Nepal's showcase temples and palaces were reduced to ruins. But save for a ...

Radha, a recently retired Kumari, is excited to explore Patan Darbar Square for the very first time as an ordinary girl. She has left behind the elaborate and time-consuming rituals that burdened her ...

I still remember the first time I saw one of Nepal's child goddesses. Three years ago this month, an attendant carried her in a procession through the historic, winding streets of Patan during the ...

PATAN, Nepal, April 7 (Reuters Life!) - Even a "living goddess" is sometimes faced with tough decisions. Sign up here. Chanira Bajracharya, 15, has been the Kumari or "living goddess" of Patan, an ...

Dhana Kumari Bajracharya, 63, is s “retired” reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Taleju Bhawani. She was enthroned in 1954 when she was two years old. Her niece Chanira was chosen as Kumari in 2001.