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The Pashupatinath Temple ((ネパール語:पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर)) is a famous, sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupatinath and is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=5th-century pashupatinath temple )〕 the capital of Nepal. This temple is considered one of the sacred temples of Hindu faith .The temple serves as the seat of the national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.This temple complex is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites's list Since 1979. This "extensive Hindu temple precinct" is a "sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river" and is included as one of the seven monument groups in UNESCO's designation of Kathmandu Valley as a cultural heritage site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/121/ )〕 One of the major Festivals of the temple is Maha Shivaratri on which day over 700,000 devotees visit here. The twelve Jyotirlinga (in India) are the body and the Jyotirlinga at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu (Nepal) is the head over this body. The temple is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (''Holy Abodes of Shiva'') on the continent. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana mentions this Shivalinga as the bestower of all wishes. ==History== The temple was erected anew in the 15th century by Lichhavi King Shupuspa after the previous building had been consumed by termites.〔Robertson McCarta and Nelles Verlag: Nelles Guide to Nepal, First Edition, 1990, page 94〕 Countless further temples have been erected around this two -storied temple. These include the Vaishnav temple complex with a Ram temple from the 14th century and the Guhyeshwari Temple mentioned in an 11th-century manuscript. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pashupatinath Temple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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