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The village is mainly known for the Kasar Devi temple, the shrine dedicated to Kasar Devi. The temple itself, dates back to the 2nd century CE. A winding walkway from gateway on the main road, right the beginning of the village, leads up to the temple.

कसार देवी उत्तराखण्ड में अल्मोड़ा के निकट एक गाँव है। यह कसार देवी मंदिर के कारण प्रसिद्ध है। मंदिर दूसरी शताब्दी का है। स्वामी विवेकानन्द १८९० में यहाँ आये थे। इसके अलावा अनेकों पश्चिमी साधक यहाँ आये और रहे। यह क्रैंक रिज के लिये भी प्रसिद्ध है जहाँ १९६०-७० के दशक के हिप्पी आन्दोलन में बहुत प्रसिद्ध हुआ था। आज भी देशी-विदेशी पर्वतारोही और पर्यटक यहाँ आते रहते हैं।
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प्रतिवर्ष कार्तिक पूर्णिमा (नवम्बर-दिसम्बर में) को यहाँ कसार देवी का मेला लगता है।

Kasar Devi is a village near Almora, Uttarakhand. It is known for the Kasar Devi temple, a Devi temple, dedicated to Kasar Devi, after whom the place is also named. The temple structure dates to the 2nd century CE. Swami Vivekananda visited Kasar Devi in 1890s, and numerous western seeker, Sunyata Baba Alfred Sorensen and Lama Anagarika Govinda. A place also known for Crank’s Ridge, just outside the village, which was popular destination during the Hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to attract trekkers and tourists, both domestic and foreign.

The temple hosts the annual “Kasar Devi Fair” on Kartik Poornima (November–December).
Kasar Devi first became known when in the 1890s, Swami Vivekananda visited and meditated here and has mentioned his experience in his diaries.[1] Walter Evans-Wentz, a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, who later translated The Tibetan Book of the Dead, stayed here for some time.[2]

Then in the 1930s, Danish mystic Sunyata Baba (Alfred Sorensen) came here and lived here the over three decades, as did Ernst Hoffman, who became Tibetan Buddhist Lama Anagarika Govinda and Li Goutami. This led to a series of spiritual seekers from the west, visiting them. In 1961, Govinda was visited by Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gary Snyder.[2][3] In later history, at the peak of the Hippie movement, the area also became a part of the Hippie trail. Crank’s Ridge, colloquially known as Hippie Hill, which lies ahead of Kasar Devi became a popular destination. It became home to several bohemian artists, writers and western Tibetan Buddhists, and even visited by mystic-saint Anandamayi Ma.

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