Description: Behind the Swayambhunath Stupa is the pagoda-style Hariti Temple. Not only at the platform at the hill top, but also behind the Mini Swayambhunath (or Kathesimbhu Stupa) downtown. This temple has a beautiful image of Hariti, the goddes of smallpox. This Hindu goddess, who is also responsible for fertility, indicates the interweaving of Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal. It's hard to distinguish the two, especially since they are also interwoven with the exotica of Tantrism on a background of animistic cults from the past.
The result is a proliferation of cults, deities and celebrations in variations unique for Nepal and unknown elsewhere on earth.
Just look around and wonder.