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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"temples"”.
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Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese
… Hellenistic religion and the role of monumental temples during this period. However, the role of small extra-urban temples has been somewhat overlooked in favor of larger and more easily accessible temples within the city or predominant sanctuary. The Peloponnese is rich in such modest rural …
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Forming Dorasamudra: Temples of the Hoysala Capital in Context
… Although the site is home to more than twenty temples and temple ruins, as well as the fragmentary remains of a fort wall and palace compound, the place name "Halebid" today is nearly synonymous with a single monument: the lavishly sculptural Hoysalesvara temple. This expansive, double-shrine …
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Recommendations and guidelines for designing Vietnamese Buddhist temples in Australia
This thesis examines the design of Buddhist temples in traditional Vietnamese style and characteristics within the context of the Australian environment. The legends of the Buddha and his teaching are described with regard to the symbolism in temple components and the meaning of temple form. …
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The Central Hall in the Egyptian Temples of the Ptolemaic Period
… aspects of the Central Halls in the Egyptian temples of the Ptolemaic period. According to the texts of that period, the Central Hall has different designations used to refer to it. Whenever it exists, the location of this Central Hall is always between the Sanctuary and the Hall of Offerings …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… architectural forms of contemporaneous temples in India's Tamil region. Piecing together over 300 carvings discovered in the region in light of archaeological and art historical evidence, I develop a chronology of the temple's history, and propose that Ming forces destroyed the temple …
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Three essays on organizational paradox, history, and resilience: An ethnography of Buddhist temples
… that are most salient in Korean Buddhist temples: (1) finance versus religion, (2) change versus tradition, and (3) adaptation versus stability. Specifically, drawing upon paradox theory, my first essay examines how Buddhist monks address tension between business work to support the …
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Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition
Lucian, writing in the mid-second century AD, recorded his observations of an "exotic" local cult in the city of Hierapolis in what is today Northern Syria. The local goddess was known as Dea Syria to the Romans and Atargatis to the Greeks. Lucian's so-named De Dea Syria is an important record of …
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Mormon temple architecture and the spaces of ritual
Temples are the most significant religious buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the early days of the church, temples were used for general worship and congregation. These temples represented the spiritual and physical heart of the communities in which they were built. …
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Set in Stone? A Landscape and Material Approach to Provincial Power in the Khmer Empire
… a landscape and material-based analysis of temples within the Khmer Empire. Rather than treating Khmer power as a static or centrally imposed resource, this study conceptualizes it as emerging from the interplay among elite authority, agrarian economies, and religious ideology. Temples …
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Giving Architecture to Fire
… buildings for protection. These buildings became temples of fire or Fire Temples where an eternal flame was kept and looked after by a priest so as to keep alive the salvation of humankind and continue our journey towards righteousness with the blessings of the supreme. With this, faith stayed …
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Buddhist sculpture of Wu Yueh, 907-978: Chinese sculpture of the tenth century
… and patronized the construction of many Buddhist temples and statues.
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Analysis of traditional Korean space and its application to a contemporary problem : a crematorium
… In this context. the diagrammatic Korean temples are good illustrations of the 'Prime Generator'. But my main concern lies in ideas that cannot be easily explained by the notion of prime generator in the non-diagrammatic temples, which were the outgrowth of deep contemplation and a process …
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The Krishna Temple Complex, Hampi: An Exploration of its identity as a Medieval temple in the contemporary context
Hindu temples in India have been in abundance for centuries. However, many have lost their use over time. They lie vacant and unused on vast tracts of land across the Indian subcontinent, in a time when financial resources for the provision of amenities to serve the local community are hard to come …
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Is there evidence of intentionality of sky involvement in the prehistoric megalithic sites of Mnajdra in Malta?
… the question of whether the prehistoric Mnajdra Temples in Malta were intentionally constructed to face astronomical events in the sky. Using a combination of archeoastronomical fieldwork measurements, photography, phenomenology and experimental archaeoastronomy, the possibility that the temples …
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Spatial sequence in the historic gardens
… tool, cases in formal classic landscapes (Korean temples, Mughul gardens in Kashmir and Italian villas) have been examined. Classic landscapes have developed elaborate sequential patterns to achieve certain experiences and effects. Especially, the spatial sequence of classic formal landscapes is …
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At the feet of the goddess : A comparative study of local goddess worship in Khurdapur, a village settlement in Orissa and Cholavandan, a small town in Tamilnadu
… with three general areas of investigation 1) the temples and shrines 2) the character of the goddesses 3) the ritual worship of the goddesses. <br/><br/>These three areas are analysed thematically in terms of the opposites, sacred and profane, order and chaos and the pairs, power and purity, anger …
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The core assemblage of the Iron Age cult in Palestine
… the material culture found in Iron Age temples, chapels, votive shrines, and offertory shrines. The paradigms are then applied to Megiddo 2081, concluding that it was a chapel and not a mere corner shrine. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 surveys the history of research on the …
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