Jewelry shops were busy in Bhaktapur during the biggest holiday of the year, Dashain. Dashain symbolizes the victory of good over evil celebrated in October. Every home is cleansed and decorated. time the reunion of distant and nearby relatives occur in every household. Shops are filled with people seeking new clothing, jewelry and gifts and enormous supplies of temple offering for the gods, as well as foodstuffs for the family feasting.
Prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit and to purify negative energy or karma. As you pass by, you spin the wheel clockwise, as the direction in which the mantras are written is that of the movement of the sun across the sky.
Sisters at the orphanage we work with basking in that afternoon sun before dancing away into the night.
