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On our first day in Nepal, we visited the
Monkey Temple and the Pasopatinath Temple.
The Monkey Temple is on a small mountain in
the middle of the Kathmandu Valley. Legend
has it that the capital city was a giant lake,
and a monk threw some lotus seeds into the
lake. Soon the lotus grew into a mountain
with a bright object at its peak. Many monks
from around the world came to visit the
mountain. When Bodhisattva Manjushri came,
he built a space at the top of the mountain
so people could visit easily. After that, local
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residents built a temple to protect the space.
Tourists began calling it the Monkey Temple
because there are a lot of monkeys in the
area, and also because its Nepalese name is
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