To ensure reconstruction works of famous Manakamana Temple is not stalled for the want of funds, tourism entrepreneurs have joined hands to generate the necessary resources for the same. Manakamana ...

Renovation of Manakamana temple in Lakhan Rural Municipality-2, Gorkha, has finally been completed. Although the temple was damaged in the 2015 earthquakes, its renovation had started from June this ...

Two religious pilgrims take the cable car to the "Manakamana" temple in Nepal. (Courtesy) When anthropology is done right, it looks something like “Manakamana.” Filmmaker Pacho Velez and longtime ...

Is it a Zen meditation or a travel documentary? An ethnological treatise or an essay on changing religious practices? Is it about landscapes or the people who pass through them? Or is it just a ...

A couple ties a holy thread around the neck of their baby during the Dashain festival at Manakamana Temple in Gorkha district, Nepal, on Oct. 16, 2018. Located atop a 1300-meter hill about 100 ...

The Sensory Ethnography Lab, a collective of researchers and filmmakers based out of Harvard, made a name for themselves last year with the theatrical release of Leviathan, a thunderbolt of ...

The faces in “Manakamana,” a transporting ethnographic film set in a green sliver of Nepal, stare into the camera, out into space and, perhaps, into the great beyond. The faces are sometimes creased ...

As a follow-up to the International Year of Ecotourism (IYE 2002) and the International Year of Mountains (IYM 2002), scholars and practitioners need to continue to address the challenges inherent in ...

Directed — insofar as that term applies here — by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez and produced by “Leviathan” visionaries Lucien Castain-Taylor and Verena Paravel, the feature begins with a single ...

Cultural opponents of fast food started a successful slow food movement several years back, and if there is ever a parallel slow documentary trend, the fascinating “Manakamana” could be classified as ...