Guhyeshvari Temple

Guheswari, Guhjeshvari

Famous Temple of Goddess Durga to visit on the ninth day of Navaratri (Dashain Festival), partially damaged 2015 by earthquake.
The Idol (Guhyeshwari) is a Shakti of Shiva in her Terrible Form
One of the 50 Buddhist Power Places acc. Keith Dowman and one of the 64 Shivalingams in and near the Kathmandu Valley (# 60 / 64) guhya = weibl. Geschlechtsteil (Parvati), Tieropfer ! Sati (Parvati).

/ about 1650 / damaged 2015

No. 21

• Map from Ulrich Wiesner, Nepal, Du Mont Kunst-Reiseführer, 1. Aufl. Köln 1997

• Foto by N.N. in http://photopatrakarita.com/structures/the-guhyeshwari-temple-is-dedicated-to-shivas-shakti-in-her-terrible-manifestation-as-kali

• Foto by N.N. in https://askmeaboutnepal.blogspot.com/2018/03/gujeshwari-mandir.html

• Foto by Mahesh Dhami in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pashupatinath_Temple_Area,_Kathmandu_01.jpg

• Foto by N.N. in https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpp_flr/albums/72157628050105744

• Foto by N.N. in http://arjuna-vallabha.tumblr.com/

• Foto by N.N. in https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpp_flr/albums/72157628050105744

• Foto by N.N. in http://dhunganabishweshwar.blogspot.de/2011/03/some-popular-old-pictures-of-nepal.html

• Foto by N.N. in https://askmeaboutnepal.blogspot.com/2018/03/gujeshwari-mandir.html

• Foto by N.N. in http://shiva-parvati.blogspot.de/2014/05/shakti-pithas.html

• Foto by N.N. in http://rajachandraphotos.blogspot.de/2014_05_01_archive.html

• Foto by N.N. in http://www.inquirynepal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/guheshwori.jpg

• Foto by Mahesh Dhami in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pashupatinath_Temple_Area,_Kathmandu_04.jpg

• Foto by Mahesh Dhami in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pashupatinath_Temple_Area,_Kathmandu_02.jpg

• Raju Nepal, Nepal - Each Place a Holy Place, 1st ed., Lalitpur 2012

• Heinrich Seemann, Nepal 2029, Stuttgart 1973

• Ulrich Wiesner, Nepal, Du Mont Kunst-Reiseführer, 1. Aufl. Köln 1997