Just some photos of the shrines surrounding the main stupa. There's also a big boxlike structure in back of the stupa called Shantipur. In the 5th century, a holy man named Shanti Shri sealed himself inside this building to meditate, and will only come out when Kathmandu needed him. So far I guess the city's done ok without him since he hasn't come out, but the king went in to visit him in 1658 to get his help in ending a drought. He got the help from the (quite skinny) holy man and the drought ended, but it wasn't easy. Before he got to him, he had to go through a room filled with giant bats, then another room filled with ghosts and flesh eating spirits, then a third room filled with huge snakes. For obvious reasons, Shantipur isn't open to the public.