Kapan, Kathmandu, Nepal is a residential area, located in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. It is situated in the northern part of Kathmandu.
The typical lifestyle of monks rotates around chanting, meditation and doing some artistic work. There are different communities of monks in Nepal.
The Lama in these monasteries give education and people from different regions and other Himalayan countries come to receive a classical monastic education.
Little monks from the age of even from all over Nepal and other Himalayan countries are residing at this Gelugmonastery, in Kapan.
It is not a compulsion for .