She's young and beautiful. A glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune. She's Nepal's Living Goddess, or Kumari, who is selected as a small... The Very Strange Life Of Nepal's Child Goddess ...

Nepal may have gotten rid of the royal family, but thankfully it hasn’t yet dispensed with another tradition: the child goddess who sounds like a duck. If you are female, possess “the voice of a duck” ...

A three-year-old girl in Nepal has been anointed as a Kumari Devi (living goddess), an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju. She replaces a girl no longer eligible to be accorded divine status upon ...

KATMANDU, Nepal – Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. Wrapped in red ...

Last month's earthquake brought much of Kathmandu's historic Durbar Square, a World Heritage Site, tumbling to the ground. Nepal's showcase temples and palaces were reduced to ruins. But save for a ...