KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 2-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country's ...

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Toddler Aryatara Shakya has been appointed Nepal's new Living Goddess Kumari following an ancient selection process which included a traditional Trial of Bravery. The two-and-a-half year old girl was ...

In the heart of Kathmandu’s old city, amid the chaos of ringing temple bells, swirling incense, and prayer flags fluttering in the breeze, lives a little girl who is no ordinary child. She is the ...

Nepal's former Kumaris, girls worshipped as living goddesses in a centuries-old tradition, are to be awarded a pension to help them re-adjust to normal life, an official said Tuesday. Ten former ...

KATHMANDU -- Nepal is looking for a successor to its Hindu living virgin goddess. A new Kumari of Kathmandu, the young girl regarded as the patron deity of the ancient Himalayan kingdom, is due to be ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Trishna Shakya, 11, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant ...

One day last week in Katmandu, capital of the kingdom of Nepal, the goddess Kumari burst into tears. She begged her mother to take her home from the big white plastered brick house behind the old city ...