SWYAMBHUNATH & AROUND ATTRACTION

The colossal stupa is encompassed on all sides by a veritable model garden of religious landmarks. At the back of the stupa is a little, dreary gallery of Buddhist statuary, yet the nearby Kagyud-school Dongak Chöling gompa was gravely harmed by the 2015 quake.
North of the explorer protect is the brilliant pagoda-style Hariti (Ajima) Temple, with a lovely picture of Hariti, the goddess of smallpox. This Hindu goddess, who is likewise in charge of ripeness, outlines the consistent intertwining of Hindu and Buddhist convictions in Nepal.
On the west side of the stupa are two figures of the goddess Tara, connected to stone sections. The White and Green Tara are said to symbolize the Chinese and Nepali spouses of King Songtsen Gampo, the main imperial supporter of Buddhism in Tibet, and are additionally female consorts to two of the Dhyani Buddhas. The upper piece of one of the segments tumbled in the tremor, however might be reestablished.
Close-by is an everlasting fire in a confine; it used to be monitored by bronze pictures of the waterway goddesses Jamuna and Ganga yet these were lost in the tremor. Northwest of these statues is a garden of old chaityas, and at the back of this gathering is a smooth dark statue of Dipankara, cut in the seventh century. Otherwise called the 'Buddha of Light', Dipankara is one of the 'past Buddhas' who accomplished edification before the season of Siddhartha Gautama, the verifiable Buddha. Additionally take note of the dark chaityas set on a yoni – an unmistakable showing of the blending of Hindu and Buddhist symbology.
Back at the upper east corner of the complex, the Buddhist sanctuary known as Shree Karmaraja Mahavihar turned out to be basically unsound after the tremor and was painstakingly brought down after a custom supplication service, however aficionados plan to inevitably raise another sanctuary on the site.
Images of the five components – earth, air, water, fire and ether – can be found around the ridge, however a few were harmed by the quake. Behind the remnants of the Anantapura sanctuary are places of worship devoted to Vasupura, the earth image, and Vayupura, the air image, alongside the remains of a whitewashed stupa. Nagpura, the image for water, is a stone set in a sloppy pool only north of the stupa, while Agnipura, the image for flame, is the embarrassed god on a cleaned rock on the northwestern side of the stage. Shantipura, the image for the sky, is north of the stage, before the harmed Shantipura building.