paramparaNEPAL’S LIVING TRADITIONS
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ROOTED IN NEPAL. SHARED WITH GENERATIONS.

Carry your
traditions forward.

Discover the rituals, stories, and little details that bring us together. A thoughtful guide to celebrating the way your family does.

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✳ Many communities. Many ways to celebrate.
A couple at an inter-caste wedding ceremony in LalitpurA WEDDING IN LALITPUR · 2012

An inter-caste marriage ceremony in Lalitpur, photographed in April 2012. This image is not assigned to a particular caste or guide.

Krish Dulal · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Displayed responsively; cropped to fit on hero and guide cards. Original source and license apply to the photograph.
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FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVE

Traditions, seen through real moments.

Wedding photographs and community portraits, with their original context.

Wikimedia Commons
A couple at an inter-caste wedding ceremony in Lalitpur
Wedding photograph

A wedding in Lalitpur

An inter-caste marriage ceremony in Lalitpur, photographed in April 2012. This image is not assigned to a particular caste or guide.

Krish Dulal · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Displayed responsively; cropped to fit on hero and guide cards. Original source and license apply to the photograph.
A narsinga player at a Hindu marriage ceremony in Nepal
Wedding photograph

Music in the procession

A narsinga player at a Hindu wedding in Nepal, February 2017. The photograph does not establish a caste-specific ritual.

Bijaya Kumar Shrestha / Bijaya2043 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0Displayed responsively; cropped to fit on hero and guide cards. Original source and license apply to the photograph.
Limbu women performing Kelang dance at the 2012 Udhauli festival in Sydney
Festival context · not a wedding

Kelang across generations

Limbu women performing Kelang at Udhauli in Sydney, December 2012. Festival context, not a wedding photograph.

Ashishlohorung · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Displayed responsively; cropped to fit on hero and guide cards. Original source and license apply to the photograph.
Sherpa family posing together for a portrait
Community context · not a wedding

A Sherpa family portrait

A Sherpa family portrait from Wikimedia Commons. Exact locality is not established. Community context, not a wedding photograph.

Gac; later tint credited to Trish pt7 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Displayed responsively; cropped to fit on hero and guide cards. Original source and license apply to the photograph.
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