Seto Machhendra Nath

Various called "Jana Bahal" located between Indra Chowk and Ason, Siddhartha Marg. An enclosed courtyard. During annual festival of RathJatra in Chaitra (March-April), the image of White faced Arya Avalokiteshwara (Lokesvar), popularly known as "Jana Baha Dev", is take out of temple into the streets of Kathmandu and returned with great festivity during the night of full moon. The Seto Machchindranath festival is essentially a smaller, less elaborate version of the Rato Machchendranath festival of Patan.

The face and body if the image of Seto Machhendra Nath is very white and the body is covered by colorful and fancy cloths. The temple is scared to both Hindus & Buddhists.

The courtyard in which it rest is crowed with stone and bronze sculpture of all kinds, but especially notable are two very graceful figures of the goddess Tara which are seated atop lover stone pillars near the entrance facing outward. In the courtyard are numerous small caityas & several small shrines with stone deities. Serving as glorified lamp bases are unique sculpture of two large semi-Greek females in brilliantly gilded metal near the outer entrance. Many guardian lions in stone and metal are also seen in the court and in the entrance of the courtyard.

The first floor is almost covered with simmering decoration, with the triple doorway of which only the center door is functional. Marked with triple torana in each side of the doorway. There are 108 forms of Avalokitesvar, carved in bronze which stretch all around the three side of the temple. Such artistic work is to be found nowhere else in Kathmandu. The image are about 12 inches tall and a valuable display of Buddhist iconography.

The whole complex is thus one of the most elaborate temple decoration and a rare example of the free standing multi-storey temple to be found in Nepal.