The Pashupatinath Temple is a well-known, pious Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupatinath thai is Lord Shiva and is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu the capital of Nepal.
The temple is very ancient and has lot of cultural as well as religious value according to Hindu beliefs. The Temple area is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites's list since 1979. As per records biggest festival celebrated there is Mahashivratri and devotees gather in huge numbers, at least 700,000 of them, visit the temple on this festival.
The twelve Jyotirlinga (in India) are the body and the Jyotirlinga at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu (Nepal) is the head over this body.
Temple area of Pashupatinath covers around 264 hectare of land including 518 temples and monuments. Main pagoda style temple is located in the fortified courtyard within the complex guarded by Semi-Military Nepal Police and Military Force Nepal Army and has a police outpost post along with living quarter within. In front of the western door there is a huge statue Nandi bull, in bronze. Along with many temples and shrines of both Vaishnav and saiva tradition.
Since ages it is believed that it Lord Shiva's temple but later it was termed that it is temple of Lord Pashupatinath who is god of "Pashu" means god all living and non-living beings. The temple was built in back 400 B.C.
In 2015 April whrn earthquake had hit Nepal the main center of the temple remain intact but some temples did suffer damage to them.
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