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 ...

Nepal may have gotten rid of the royal family, but thankfully it hasn’t yet dispensed with another tradition: the child goddess who sounds like a duck. If you are female, possess “the voice of a duck” ...

Nepal’s kumaris are girls who are worshipped as embodiments of Durga, the Hindu goddess of protection. While the tradition is centuries old, many of today’s kumaris represent a changing Nepal. Photo: ...

KATMANDU, Nepal – Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. Wrapped in red ...

Initially a conventional first-contact story, Marley's sensitive, lyrical SF novel, set on 23rd-century Earth and the oceanic world Virimund, swiftly evolves into a meditation intertwining spiritual ...

The young Nepali goddess Sajani Shakya has been stripped of her title — apparently because of her visit to the U.S. to promote a documentary in which she was featured. Elders in Nepal have said the ...

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 ...