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The all-seeing eyes atop Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa are not decoration — every element, from the nose shaped like a Nepali numeral to the 13 gold tiers…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 6, 2026
Stand anywhere near Boudhanath in Kathmandu and you cannot escape being watched. Four pairs of painted eyes, each larger than a city bus is long, stare out from the stupa's central tower in every direction at once — and unlike almost every other giant…
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What this means for visitors Boudhanath is free to enter and best experienced at dusk, walking the kora — the clockwise circuit — with the neighbourhood's Tibetan exile community, who have called the streets around the stupa home since the 1959 diaspora. Spin…
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