These flew off the shelves when they first appeared in New Road shops. Lama started taking photographs for postcards that he had printed in Singapore.
Mani Lama got his first camera from his father when he was 12, and took up photography as a profession when he returned from the United States and could not find a job in agriculture because of rife nepotism and casteism. “They came here in autumn and stayed the whole winter when the mountain passes were snowed under.” “Pilgrims from India, China, and many parts of Nepal visited Boudha in those days,” he says. While his father went about his priestly duties, Lama spent his childhood experiencing Boudha, then a settlement of mud houses with thatch roofs. Lama thinks his mixed heritage has given him a wider perspective on the world. There is Tamang and Rana blood running in his veins because the first Chiniya Lama married a woman who was Jung Bahadur’s daughter through a Tamang wife, and he is also of Sherpa descent by way of ancestors from Helambu. “I still have 18% Chinese ancestry,” Lama laughs, “but I am fully Nepali.” The lineage still looks after the shrine, although Lama himself does not have to. That is why Mani Lama’s ancestors were called the Chiniya Lama. Eventually the Lamas tired of travelling all over Nepal, and stuck to taking care only of Boudha.
Read also: The stupa of a million dewdrops, Sewa BhattaraiĪfter he was satisfied that the monk was not a spy, Jung Bahadur recruited him to look after Lumbini, Swoyambhu, and Boudha. But Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana, who was preparing to invade Tibet, took him for a Chinese spy and arrested him. His great-great-grandfather was a Chinese man from Sichuan who came to Nepal to meditate in one of the caves near Pashupati. Mani Lama has spent his entire life in the shadow of the great stupa, and his family has ties with Boudha that go back six generations. His latest work, Boudha: Restoring the Great Stupa, is releasing on 18 January and chronicles the shrine’s rebirth after the 2015 earthquake. As a young man he studied agriculture in America, but destiny had other designs.Īs a photographer, Lama ended up becoming the chronicler of Boudha and its unique neighbourhood. Editing, 2D and 3D animation, colour grading, sound design, sound mixing, voice over recording.Mani Lama, 73, never intended to become a photographer.
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