Kathmandu Durbar Square. Kumari Ghar.
The Royal Kumari is selected and enthroned here. She is always a young girl believed to be
the bodily incarnation of the goddess Taleju. She gets replaced at puberty
or earlier if she is injured or killed. The current Royal Kumari was installed in
2008 at the age of four by the Maoist government after it overthrew the
monarchy.
Kathmandu, Nepal
-- 2/12/2012