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 ...

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 ...

A three-year-old girl in Nepal has been anointed as a Kumari Devi (living goddess), an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju. She replaces a girl no longer eligible to be accorded divine status upon ...

She's young and beautiful. A glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune. She's Nepal's Living Goddess, or Kumari, who is selected as a small... The Very Strange Life Of Nepal's Child Goddess ...