[minus_273]

oh yeah for the cultural closeness to india, you need to read more. I dont mean that as an insult. No one who has even read a little about the place would say such a thing. Nepal is traditionally in the chinese sphere of influence. I dont think this is an indian architecture style :

Similarly if you have been in Beijing you will see Nepalese temples there. thats why the chinese government erected a statue of an ancient Nepalese architect

Also, religiously, Nepalese are not Hindus like indians but both Hindu and Buddhist. Talk to a few and you see they can go to both Hindu temples and Buddhist stupas to pray.

Probably the strongest indicator, the Chinese new year is celebrated in Nepal (called Losar) . Does india have its own calendar? If it does i am not aware of its new year being of a holiday there.

[CarrotAndStick]

oh yeah for the cultural closeness to india, you need to read more. I dont mean that as an insult. No one who has even read a little about the place would say such a thing. Nepal is traditionally in the chinese sphere of influence. I dont think this[ref. pic above] is an Indian architecture style...

Hahaha! Check out Sagar's home page profile. And he's from Nepal.

As for architecture, there is a school of taught believing that martial arts and architecture went from Kerala (the southern state of India which had extensive ancient trading links with China), to China via SE Asia, and not the other way round.

Complex of an ancient temple in Kerala, India.

[Gengis Khan]

Frankly Losar celebration is more politically motivated to cozy up to China and to spite at the Indians. Its hardly about cultural affinity.

Although Tibet is occupied by China culturally China is several hundreds of miles away from Nepal on the other side of Tibet.

"Nepal is traditionally in the chinese sphere of influence."

LOL. You are saying it out of your antipathy for Indians. I doubt you really believe that yourself. The fact that Nepal even exists is because of India.

[Gengis Khan]

Its because of India, willy nilly always ready to protect Nepal, that you would as usual play your China card. No good deed goes unpunished.

Had there been no India and only a commmunist China knocking at your door, I doubt you would have been so enthusiastic about the Nepal's close relationship to China that you would so proudly flaunt the minor architectural semblance of Buddhist temples as proof of Chinese cultural affinity for Nepal. You would fear that the same proof can very well be used by China to claim that Nepal was always part of China just like Tibet.

[sagar]

The pagoda architecture went from Nepal to Tibet and finally to China. Remember Arniko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arniko

[sagar]

"Nepal is traditionally in the chinese sphere of influence. "

Nepal is NOT in the chinese sphere of influence. Chinese influence on India is ZERO. Nil. Nada. There is Tibetan influence. And Tibetan culture is influenced by Nepali culture, which is derived from Indian culture whether we like India or not.

[Irreverent]

Dude start reading

The Argumentative Indian : Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity; Amartya Sen it has a chapter on Indian Calendrical Systems... you will find it has more than one :-)