Shopping and Other Practicalities
Run-of-the-mill souvenirs at Boudha are notoriously overpriced, but this is the place to come if you're seeking genuinely obscure or antique items. Keep an eye out for tea tables, jewellery, flasks, butter-tea churns and prayer-flag printing blocks. The Tibet Musical Cultural Center, on the north side of the stupa plaza, sells traditional musical instruments and provides instruction. Boudha is also a good place to buy prayer flags, brocade banners, Tibetan incense, chuba (Tibetan wrap-around dresses) and maroon monks' garb. For books on Buddhism, try the Tibet Book Centre in front of Hotel Tibet International. Cassette tapes , not only of music but also teachings by local lamas, are sold at a couple of places around the stupa and on the main road. You can buy film at many shops, and one or two places do processing. There's at least one moneychanger in the vicinity of the stupa, just inside the entrance, and Nabil Bank has a branch about 500m east of the stupa on the main road. You can send email and make phone calls from places along the main road and northeast of the stupa plaza. For Tibetan medicine , there's a branch of the Kunphen Tibetan Medical Centre on the main road just opposite the stupa entrance, inside the Boudhanath Guest House. Long-term residents might be able to recommend other doctors who treat foreigners.
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