By‚ Pankaj Kumar Nanda History of Art‚ 1st SEM INTRODUCTION The three centuries that followed the advent of stone as the fabric of construction of temples of vimana type in south and prasada type of north in India‚ witnessed remarkable strides in architecture and sculpture with the almost simultaneous collation and codification of the Vastu‚ Silpa and Agama canons‚ as developed and systematised by different guilds and schools of ‘Silpacharyas’ or Perum-tachchhars and the religions creeds that
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Word Count: 727 Saving the New Jerusalem According to Eric O. Jacobsen’s article “Waiting for Jerusalem”‚ “claiming our cities for Christ” means: “spreading God’s word in certain geographical areas through preaching the gospel and spiritual warfare” (1). This idea of “claiming our cities for Christ” is meant to help spread the good news of the lord and keep certain cities God like. There are however three different problems to this. The first problem with this approach is that it doesn’t seem
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Emergence: Labeled Autistic By: Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano Temple Grandin is one of the world’s leading experts in the design and construction of livestock handling facilities. Temple is also a recovered autistic. Throughout her life‚ Temple experienced much physical‚ emotional‚ and psychological pain because of her condition. An individual with autism is looked upon as helpless‚ but‚ with much determination‚ Temple Grandin proved to be all but helpless. Temple Grandin was born in 1947 to
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A visit to The Golden Temple Submitted by Siddhant Walia B.Com 0211078 The Golden Temple is quite possibly the best sight in North India. But the Golden Temple is more than a sight. It’s an experience. From the moment one walks through the shallow water (to wash your feet) into the inner compound‚ one can tell that there is something holy about the place. It’s an incredibly moving experience to see the devoutness and solemnity with which
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and holding a trident and a small drum or more often in the form of the linga‚ an elongated stone representing his generative powers. The most important linga is situating in the holy shrine of Pashupatinath to west of Kathmandu. In front of Shiva temples one usually sees a statue of Nandi‚ the divine bull that serves as Shiva’s vehicle. Another popular form of Shiva in Nepal is the terrifying Bhirav. Different aspects of Bhairav play major roles in many of the Valley’s festivals.Vishnu‚ whose primary
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Individual Paper: Shaolin Temple PROFESOR: William J. TinneySTUDENT: Alua Kairatkyzy IUP2012023 Introduction: Shaolin Temple - a Buddhist monastery‚ located in China ’s Henan Province on Mount Songshan. Where was born the legendary martial art of wushu (kungfu). Translation from the Chinese: Shaolin means "little forest" that characterizes a monastery‚ which located in the landscape. Today‚ under the influence of popular culture‚ mainly cinema: people know Shaolin Temple only as a place of training
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Peoples Temple On November 18‚ 1978 more than nine hundred people died in one of the largest mass murder/suicides in history. The man that implemented and carried out that atrocity was James Warren Jones‚ otherwise known as Jim Jones‚ a self proclaimed Second Coming (God). His exposure to an intensely emotional Pentecostal church service influenced and shaped his future beliefs and actions. In 1960‚ despite his lack of theological training‚ Jim Jones became an ordained minister. He made racial
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The Stone Temple at Urfa gave way to many diverse belief systems and religions from the time it was erected to the time it was buried. Based on archaeological data‚ Urfa was the place of many ’firsts’ in history; such as the first wheel‚ stone quarry‚ settlement‚ animal breeding‚ writing‚ mosiacs‚ the first temple‚ Bible and church. When this temple was built‚ it seemed to cause shifts in the way things worked at that time in the community. Due to disagreements and differences in opinion‚ the culture
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Although the sacredness of Jerusalem is mostly defined through the time of David in this paper‚ it wasn’t the beginning of it in Jerusalem. Before David’s time‚ Abraham‚ one of the first three patriarchs of Judaism‚ experiences an appearances of hierophany through his son. The biblical text of Abraham’s story serves as the beginning of sacredness in the city of Jerusalem. Through the biblical text from Genesis‚ we learn that Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his only son. Although God initially
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Temple Grandin was born to Richard Grandin and Eusatcia Culter on August 29‚ 1947 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. At the age of two years‚ she developed some brain harm and was taken to a controlled nursery school with caring teachers who showed great concern for her. In 1950‚ Grandin was diagnosed as autistic‚ and she received little attention from the rest of the people and was not able to communicate sufficiently. This made her mother seek speech therapy and employed a nanny who ensured a social environment
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