For over 20 yrs, or ever since i can remember, I have been made to be proud of my country and I was. Why ? Because it was the land where Buddha was born. Okay.
It is where the tallest mountain Mount Everest is . Okay, I agree.
It is this country that provided the bravest of the bravest soldier.

Now Buddha is said to be born in India, Mt Everest is partially in China, and gurkhas are moving to England. What am I left to be proud of.

I am not proud of Prachanda, neither am I proud of Girija.
I am not proud of royal massacure Neither am i proud of bombs in buses.
I am not proud of load shedding nor strikes around the country.  As matter of fact I am ashamed of these stuff..

Yet I am proud to be Nepali. I hate when others talk down on nepali. I hate neighbors for encroaching our border.  I hate it when people are unaware of the existence of Nepal..

Pls share something I can be proud of again.

There is nothing to be proud of. Just try to work hard and be proud of yourself. This attitude of proud to be .............. would never lead you to make good progress. I am not proud to be Nepali. I am fine to be a Nepal because I was born in Nepal. I am proud to be a human being. It has nothing to do with which country you are from. Be a good human being and be proud of it.

Saathi, yo pride bhanney kura lai nai tyaagidiu. 

Pride of yourself, your family, your jaati, your country.... are all just ego. 

Buddha bhagawan le bhannubhako thiyo re, ego leads to desire and desire is the source of suffering.

Hoina ta, mitra?

And I never understood why we have to be proud of Buddha or Everest in the first place! Everest just happened to be here. It was a natural outcome of tectonic shifts. Nepalese didn't lift it or carried it to where it is now. About Buddha, even if he was born here, what we know now as Buddhism and what attracts so many to him found its form in India. Indians are wrong to claim that Buddha was born in India. Again, I don't see anything to be proud of simply because Buddha was born in Nepal. We neither were a Buddhist country ever nor we have shown a single trait that reflects Buddhism in our behavior. Gurkhas! The ultimate mercenaries of the 21st century (go check merriam webster first before spewing venom)!! They neither fought the maoists when we needed them nor are they loyal to our government. For your information, they are loyal to the Queen of England, and we are supposed to be proud of them as well! Really? Seriously I couldn't even fathom all the craze over that actress whatever her name was. When the western region of Nepal was/is engulfed in epidemic, our prime minister was granting her audience and people were naming hills after her. Nepalese need a psychiatric evaluation first for their misplaced patriotic forms.

People should be proud of what we did as people: any achievement for mankind or any epitome of hard work. It befits the Japanese to be proud of their technology, Germans of their engineering, Americans of their capitalism etc. etc. To shout loud to be proud of the inanimate is shameful and shameless has always been a Nepalese tradition.

Now let's burn sajha for the things I said. Astu.

lol, makes sense.

Starting from at zero in 1950, and marked to 100,000 numbers of tourist visiting Nepal a year in 1976, and thus by now became a tousrist must go in their planned holiday vacation, its just a prove that this land of so exotic that once has an experienced a first plane landed in 1949, isnt it good enough?
Personaly i dont know much rapid progress in industrial or economy hearsay but much rumours is talk about in the colateral pioneership between the existing gov with Asean counterparts that in the simitrical plane of land at the cross geography in terrain down to earth of Nepal consist a valuable compossed gaz and became an international talks of  interest.

But something that cannot be denied that in this modern age once cant withstand in adhere Sanskrit dominate in most international languages...hindi,English and so on...
In the pretext of Vaishnavaites community Nepal has become as fundamental matters for Hinduism legends as the legacy nounce from the period of King VishnuGupta , His Majesty Himself acclaimed  as the reincarnations of Lord Vishnu, axing the world Hinduism history from the important sacred Vishnu Mandir and  Changu Narayanan for example.
Nepal as principle arts source exquisitely to artisan people especially for  Tibetan arts   in their famous Thangkas and phauba pata, its the origin of the Nepalese arts that scioned the evolved the thangkas laurels.Details of the iconic and composition such the drawn shapes clouds, nagas and  sanskriti is right  from the Nepali artisan - tracked record during the Three Kingdom of Nepal ...@ Dr. Pratapaditya Pal & Mary Shepherd Slusser.

More than i can say is proudly at this stage Nepal can boast with the Indian Idols even so as wells, as we all loved ....PRASANT TAMANG ....hajur...

 

Funkybuddha917, your comment on Gurkhas shows that you are nothing but a scuuumbag and you got nothing in your head but full of tuuurd. How on earth you can be such disrespectful to those brave men who fought advancing british during 1816-1818 war when Nepal needed them ? How can you forget the moment that Banke, Bardia, Kailali and Kanchanpur were return to Nepal because of their bravery and sacrifices?

Do you know what Hitler once said about Gurkhas? "if he had gurkhas then he can win all over the world" he went further " there nothing in the world I scare of but Gurkhas". How can you insult those bravest of the braves, hero of the heroes by simply calling "mercinaries"? How much do you know their financial contribution to Nepal and Nepalese? How much Nepali government receive from british government ?

 

I am absolutely gobsmacked by your feckless and feral comments about Gurkhas. dont live a life of a chipmunk read about the history of Gurkhas you twiiit and look at yourself what is your contribution to Nepal and Nepalese? " give a beggar a bed and he will repay you with a louse" bhaneko yestai selfish funkybuddha917 lagi baneko ukhan ho ..

Proud of Buddha. So what have you done to be proud of Buddha. Look at the state of Lumbini. Tree and artifacts are all gone in the name of research by chor King G and other chor leaders. Hardly anyone practices Boddhisattva. Only foreigners like Tibetans and others practise  that. Buddhahood sounds foreign to us even though our country gave birth to Buddha.

Proud of Mt. Everest: Ultimate exploittion like garbages and environmental disaster. Nobody gives a damn.

Gurkhas. Now that is something I am proud of.

 

Funkybuddha said - And I never understood why we have to be proud of Buddha or Everest in
the first place! Everest just happened to be here. It was a natural
outcome of tectonic shifts. Nepalese didn't lift it or carried it to
where it is now. About Buddha, even if he was born here, what we know
now as Buddhism and what attracts so many to him found its form in
India. Indians are wrong to claim that Buddha was born in India. Again,
I don't see anything to be proud of simply because Buddha was born in
Nepal. We neither were a Buddhist country ever nor we have shown a
single trait that reflects Buddhism in our behavior. Gurkhas! The
ultimate mercenaries of the 21st century (go check merriam webster
first before spewing venom)!! They neither fought the maoists when we
needed them nor are they loyal to our government. For your information,
they are loyal to the Queen of England, and we are supposed to be proud
of them as well! Really? Seriously I couldn't even fathom all the craze
over that actress whatever her name was. When the western region of
Nepal was/is engulfed in epidemic,
our prime minister was granting her audience and people were naming
hills after her. Nepalese need a psychiatric evaluation first for their
misplaced patriotic forms.

People should be proud of what
we did as people: any achievement for mankind or any epitome of hard
work. It befits the Japanese to be proud of their technology, Germans
of their engineering,
Americans of their capitalism etc. etc. To shout loud to be proud of
the inanimate is shameful and shameless has always been a Nepalese
tradition.

Now let's burn sajha for the things I said. Astu.


Well put friend. Totally agree with you. People who force other people to 'jabarjasti' be proud of something even then they dont agree with it are just rabblerousers. If you wanna be proud of something it is your free choice to do something with hard work and honesty then stand by it and say you're proud of it.

Why dont we, as earthlings be proud of the moon. Its the only one we got, and it looks pretty! Its the biggest,brightest thing in the night sky. Dont you say anyhting bad about the moon or theres gonna be bloodshed. Same difference huh? :D

Peace.

funkybuddha, i second u.

georgian_satellite can u please being me the source of all those quotes.thanx in advance.

People should be proud of what we did as people: any achievement for mankind or any epitome of hard work. It befits the Japanese to be proud of their technology, Germans of their engineering, Americans of their capitalism etc. etc. To shout loud to be proud of the inanimate is shameful and shameless has always been a Nepalese tradition.
this above statement contradicts his own theory. He says people should be proud of what they do and Gurkhas did do something -  they showed such bravery due to which Nepal is known as land of the brave far and wide.

 And I never understood why we have to be proud of Buddha or Everest in the first place! Everest just happened to be here. It was a natural
outcome of tectonic shifts. Nepalese didn't lift it or carried it to where it is now.

It is true about tectonic plates but fortunately it is in Nepal now and its been there for thousands of years and it has become part of our history and heritage and it is some heritage one should be proud of. remember, without history and heritage - YOU ARE NOBODY.

as for Lord Buddha - doesn't matter if nepalese are not die hard fans of Buddhism, what matters is he is, was and always be a NEPALI and now that is another thing to be proud of.

However, I truely agree with your cynicism towards Nepali attitude. AMEN!

 

Sathi haru every country goes through it's dark and bright phase. Our Country, Our Mother is certainly going through it's dark phase right now but remember, spring only comes after winter. If we give up hope and hard work we will be just a bunch of losers not our country. Our country is beautiful and awesome, we all know that...no question about it. Just have strong faith.  When Mother is going through bad time and needs us we don't talk shit about her or her past, we stick to her no matter what, we fight for her and be proud of her coz we are her son/daughter.......JAI NEPAL.

Nepalese give up so easily.........

There is certainly no problem in being proud of our heritage and history, including everest, buddha and the gorkhalis. But several generations have died since then without bringing any changes. And we still cling to the same old, birth place of buddha, brave army pride..Have we not done anything in so many years ?...may be not..

Siddharta Gautama Buddha has left us so long time ago and successfuly revered his vast sattva- diciple spread in two third of this world. A stigma to say Buddha is born  not in Lumbini but in India is another unsubstantial issue...
Back in Nepal, the Late Lain Sing Bangdel, a prolific Father of Arts in Nepal has encounter an important  divine realization in very own Nepali Buddha`s that should makes we proud of. In his research and study stated that in antiques arts sculptrues of Siddharta Gautama Buddha icon that he found in the western country, eg; museum , private collections,,,
it its that the intricates value for which the one made in Nepal sculptures  are made exquisitely for devotional purposes - rather than for decorative reason or commercials that avail in India - means Nepalese scluptures are barren of beauty and endear its nuance eccentric of the people, most sculptures in the Nepal temples are mainly of that sorts - divine, mostly very simple, long ears, knotted bundles of hair thus simple plain robes. Contradictly for example in the 2nd and 3rd century, the Buddha idols from India sold to people in Iran and west subcontinentel are beauty, well grommed moustaches, diadoms, well shaped ornament clothes...
That this  Buddha`s sculptures  divine encountered solemnly devotions in Nepal - have upheavel the collective value of Nepali Gautams Sattva, entirely Nepal itself..Thankyou .to  late Lain Sing Bangdel.....pranam to the Nepali@Gorkhas... hajur...

I would just like to say that Gurkhas were recruited in British army because of their bravery. May be you have forgeten the history of ur own country and because u r smart u talk about the global history (world war). I think u didn't get ur lesson on Nepalese History. It was the Gurkha King and his soldiers who fought for greater Nepal and were invincible to British. If Gurkhas and Prithvi Narayan Shah's vision weren't there then u and I would have been Indians my friend Not a Nepali.

Gurkhas fought against the British invasion in Nepal so today you can call urself a Nepali whether u r proud of it or not. Nalapani is just one reminder if u have forgotten the history lesson.

Here are some names to refresh ur memory   Amar SIngh Thapa, Bir Balbhadra Kunwar, Bhakti Thapa etc......... Did it ring any bell ????? hello hello........

From what I see history is written in favor of the power. Now with the abolishment of the Monarchy, the pages of history might change ink. Also history taught in Nepal, or mostly anywhere, is more of one side perspective than simply facts. I remember all the names mentioned above, and they are our heroes. What they did then, made us what we are today. Is the last statement right ?

We are proud of them, but would they be proud of us, that is the question ?