Just try to imagine the Baptists and Pentecostals per say sharing the same church in North American culture. Nepal is a land of tolerance and good will. The Nepalese nature is to present good will first, then wait but not necessarily expect reciprocation. This monastery was just another example of that wonderful ideology. On clear days there are fabulous views of Dhaulgiri, an impressive 8,000m or near 27,000ft peak.
Guesthouses abound everywhere in Nepal along trekking routes for as low as a dollar fifty a night.
Some may be closed during off season, so if you travel, bring along a tent. For longer stays, the hotels are used to working out deals with freaks wishing to pitch their tents on the premises. These are small, not heavily-crevassed snowfields, good for a couple hundred turns with easy access and without the need of full on, expedition gear. I might add that the best part of skiing or boarding the Himalayas of Nepal, is probably not the experience itself but the adventure and richness of getting there. There are notable descents, which I hungrily eyed in the Annapurna Range, but those lines most certainly demanded extensive mountaineering experience.