•The living goddess is chosen from girls of the Shakya caste (group) among the Newar ethnic people of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
•She is commonly known as the Kumari(Sanskrit for “princess”).
•The Kumariis worshiped as a human manifestation of the divine power of the goddess known as Taleju.
•Taleju is a goddess much like the ones found in Tantric Hinduism and Buddhism of Tibet and northeastern India.