@Zartbitter: I'm not sure what I want to use; I was commenting on what is already is use.

Thank you both for your comments. I will explore the place=suburb and place=locality options, and figure out which one is best. Although OSM says "don't tag for the renderer," in a case like Nepal's where we have to advocate for wider use of OSM[.org, and the Mapnik renderer is default so thats what most will use...] as well as built the map itself, I find myself really torn.

Some of the "towns" here, for example, are labeled with
name=Lalitpur ललितपुर
instead of
name=ललिरपुर
name:en=Lalitpur
etc., and I'm sure its for the [Mapnik] renderer. The renderer shows the place name in both English and Nepali, and it looks beautiful. I think this might be something for the default renderers to think about--how to help maps in non-English spoken places with large tourist populations to be most useful.