ཀ་ཐ་མན་ཌུའི་མིག་ཤེལ་དང་མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད། Vision Concern ཡན་ལག་ཁང་ཉེ་ཤོས།
- ས་ཁུལ་དང་ཉེ་ཤོས་ཡན་ལག་ཁང་། / Area and nearest branch
- ཞབས་ཞུ། / Services
- Vision Concern
- དྲི་བ། / FAQ
- Is there an optician near Boudhanath Stupa?
- Do I need an appointment?
- མིག་ཤེལ་དང་མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད། དྲི་བ་ཁག / Common questions near Boudhanath
- མིག་ཤེལ་ཆག་སོང་། My glasses broke — what can I do?
- Reading glasses for monks and nuns? ཀློག་པའི་མིག་ཤེལ།
- ཉི་མའི་མིག་ཤེལ། Sunglasses for kora, pilgrimage and high altitude?
- མིག་དམར་པོ། Red, dry or itchy eyes from smoke and dust?
- རྒྱང་ལ་མི་མཐོང་། Cannot see far or near — what should I do?
མདོར་བསྡུས། བོད་ནཱཐ་མཆོད་རྟེན་དང་ Jorpati, Chabahil ཉེ་འགྲམ་དུ་བཞུགས་ན། Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal ཡན་ལག་ཁང་ (KFC ཡི་མདུན།) ལ་ཕེབས་རོགས། Thamel དང་ Lazimpat ཉེ་འགྲམ་དུ་བཞུགས་ན། Lazimpat ཡན་ལག་ཁང་ (Das Tower, Radisson Hotel ཡི་འགྲམ།) ཉེ་ཤོས་ཡིན། མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད་ཀྱི་རིན་གོང་ནེ་པཱལ་སྒོར་ ༤༠༠ ཡིན། (In English: Near Boudhanath Stupa, Jorpati or Chabahil, visit Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal, opposite KFC. Near Thamel or Lazimpat, the Lazimpat branch at Das Tower next to Radisson Hotel is closest. Eye test NPR 400 by appointment; glasses, contact lenses and repairs.)
English version: Nearest eye clinic in Kathmandu by area · Deutsch
Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal — KFC ཡི་མདུན། Eye test NPR 400 · WhatsApp: +977 9841466716
ས་ཁུལ་དང་ཉེ་ཤོས་ཡན་ལག་ཁང་། / Area and nearest branch
- Boudhanath, Jorpati, Chabahil: Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal, KFC ཡི་མདུན། (opposite KFC)
- Thamel, Lazimpat, Naxal, Durbarmarg: Vision Concern Lazimpat, Das Tower (next to Radisson Hotel)
- Gokarneshwor, Makalbari: Vision Concern Makalbari, Pragati Chowk
ཞབས་ཞུ། / Services
- མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད། ནེ་པཱལ་སྒོར་ ༤༠༠ (Eye test NPR 400, by appointment)
- མིག་ཤེལ། (Prescription glasses; single-vision usually same day)
- Contact lenses, sunglasses, repairs
- ཉིན་ལྟར་ ༨:༠༠ – ༢༠:༣༠ (Open daily 8:00 AM – 8:30 PM, except announced holiday closures)
- WhatsApp: +977 9841466716
Vision Concern
Vision Concern is an eye-examination clinic and optical shop in Kathmandu with three branches. It does not perform surgery; it refers to eye hospitals when treatment is needed. ཡན་ལག་ཁང་གསུམ་ཡོད།
- Vision Concern Lazimpat — Das Tower, Radisson Hotel
- Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal — KFC, Boudhanath
- Vision Concern Makalbari — Pragati Chowk, Gokarneshwor
དྲི་བ། / FAQ
Is there an optician near Boudhanath Stupa?
Yes. Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal is opposite KFC, a few minutes from the stupa.
Do I need an appointment?
Eye tests are by appointment; the shops are open daily for glasses and repairs.
མིག་ཤེལ་དང་མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད། དྲི་བ་ཁག / Common questions near Boudhanath
མིག་ཤེལ། (mig shel) མིག་ཤེལ་ཉོ། (mig shel nyo) — Vision Concern Boudha-Tushal is a boudha optician and boudha eye clinic: the optical shop opposite KFC, a few minutes from the stupa (eye clinic near boudhanath stupa, optician near boudhanath, boudha stupa optical shop, glasses shop boudha, tushal optician). བོད་ནཱཐ་མིག་ཤེལ། མིག་ཤེལ་ཚོང་ཁང་། (mig shel tsongkhang). It is also close for people from Jorpati and Chabahil (jorpati optician, chabahil eye clinic).
མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད། (mig tag che, eye test boudha, eye checkup near KFC Boudha): NPR 400 by appointment (eye exam NPR 400 Boudha). Our optometrists speak English (English speaking optician Boudha); we cannot promise a Tibetan-speaking optician, so bring someone to help translate if needed. WhatsApp optician Boudha: +977 9841466716. We are not མིག་གི་སྨན་པ། (mig gi amchi, eye doctor); for མིག་རིལ་དཀར་པོ། (cataract) we arrange cataract referral Nepal to an eye hospital (མིག་སྨན་ཁང་།).
མིག་ཤེལ་ཆག་སོང་། My glasses broke — what can I do?
མིག་ཤེལ་ཆག་སོང་། or མིག་ཤེལ་བརླག་སོང་། (lost): bring the frame or prescription. མིག་ཤེལ་བཟོ་བཅོས། — glasses repair Boudha (screws, nose pads) is often done on the spot, and single-vision power glasses Boudha are usually ready the same day (same day glasses Boudha). We also sell a མིག་ཤེལ་སྒམ། (glasses case).
Reading glasses for monks and nuns? ཀློག་པའི་མིག་ཤེལ།
Yes — ཀློག་པའི་མིག་ཤེལ། (reading glasses Boudha), including monk reading glasses and lama glasses / ani glasses, and glasses for pecha reading (pecha reading glasses) set at the right distance after an eye test. Progressive glasses Boudha are available for far and near. Also glasses for elderly Tibetan family members and kids glasses Boudha. Monasteries can ask about a monastery eye checkup or eye checkup for lamas.
ཉི་མའི་མིག་ཤེལ། Sunglasses for kora, pilgrimage and high altitude?
ཉི་མའི་མིག་ཤེལ། / ནག་ཤེལ། (nyima mig shel, sunglasses Boudha): UV400 sunglasses for the daily kora (kora sunglasses), high altitude sunglasses, glacier glasses and ཁ་བའི་མིག་ཤེལ། (snow glasses Nepal) against ཁ་བའི་མིག་ནད། (snow blindness) — useful for UV eye protection Tibet trips and overland travellers (Lhasa to Kathmandu glasses, Kyirong travellers glasses, Dharamsala to Kathmandu glasses). མིག་ཤེལ་ཉེན་སྲུང་། protective glasses too.
མིག་དམར་པོ། Red, dry or itchy eyes from smoke and dust?
མིག་དམར་པོ། (mig marpo, red eye Boudha), མིག་སྐམ་པོ། (dry eye Kathmandu dust), མིག་ཟ་ཟ།, མིག་ཆུ་འཛག, མིག་རྩུབ་པོ།: butter lamps and incense can irritate eyes (butter lamp smoke eyes, incense smoke eye irritation). Rinse with clean water and ask a pharmacist or doctor about མིག་སྨན། (mig men, eye drops Boudha). མིག་ན་བ། (pain), མིག་འཁྱུག་པ། (sudden blur) or new eye floaters need urgent care. If མིག་ནང་ཅ་ལག་ཞུགས། (something in the eye) does not wash out, get it checked.
རྒྱང་ལ་མི་མཐོང་། Cannot see far or near — what should I do?
རྒྱང་ལ་མི་མཐོང་། (cannot see far) or ཉེ་ལ་མི་མཐོང་། (cannot see near) usually means you need glasses after a མིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད།. མིག་ཤེལ་གྱི་རིན་གོང་། (Kathmandu glasses price) depends on frame and lenses; you get the full price first. Contact lens Boudha fitting is available. Other མིག་ནད། are referred. Families from Tibetan settlement eye care areas such as Jawalakhel can also visit (Jawalakhel eye test is closest at our Lazimpat branch). For a Losar eye checkup, book early.
General information only; not a substitute for an eye examination.
Yes. Many visitors, particularly from Bangladesh and West Bengal (Kolkata), come to Nepal for cataract, retina, or other eye surgery at a hospital and also want new glasses, a general eye exam, or contact lenses at the same time, before or after their procedure. Vision Concern is an optical and eye-examination clinic, not a surgical hospital, so we work alongside hospitals such as Tilganga: we are happy to see you for glasses, contact lenses, or a routine check-up either side of your surgical treatment elsewhere.
No conversion is needed. Eyeglass prescriptions from Germany, France, the UK, the USA, China, Russia, and almost every other country use the same international format, SPH (sphere), CYL (cylinder), and AXIS, measured in diopters. Our opticians read this directly, so you can bring your prescription paper, a photo of it on your phone, or simply your current glasses, and we will use the same values. If your prescription is more than a year or two old, we recommend a quick, free re-check before we make your new pair.
Yes. Above roughly 3,000 metres, UV exposure increases sharply because of the thinner atmosphere and reflection off snow, and ordinary sunglasses (category 2-3) do not block enough UV to prevent snow blindness (photokeratitis). We recommend glacier glasses or category-4 sunglasses with side shields, and can fit these with your own prescription if needed. Vision Concern offers ZEISS polarized, UV400-certified sunglasses with prescription lenses, which we can prepare before you set off on your trek.