Amritsar and the Golden Temple, India (2)
12/04/09 •
Amritsar and the Golden Temple (Har Mandir Sahib), Northern India
The Golden Temple is built where once a small lake and forest were located.This location was known as a place of meditation since ancient times. The Lake known as Amrita Sara (the Pool of Immortality or the Pool of Ambrosia) and it is said that Buddha [...]
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Angkor Wat, Cambodia (0)
12/04/09 •
Angkor Wat, Kampuchea, Cambodia
North of Kampuchea’s Tonle Sap (roughly translated as the great lake) one finds the temple ruins of Angkor. The huge temples in this region were built over a period of 300 years and the prominent Wat (temple) of Angkor of considered one of the world’s most magnificent architectural achievements and spiritual centers. [...]
Arunachaleswar Temple, India (0)
12/04/09 •
Arunachaleswar Shiva Temple AKA Annamalaiyar Temple, Southern India
The mythology behind the Arunachaleswar temple relates to the sacred place associated with the fire linga (phallus) of Shiva. After Shiva lost his wife, Sati, he wandered in the forest naked. He came across of group of women who in turn desired him. Their husbands cursed his linga [...]
Bodhi Tree, India (0)
12/04/09 •
Bodhi Tree, Bodh Gaya, India
The most likely date for the birth of Buddha is sometime between 644 & 540 BC although some traditions place his birth as late as 4 BC. His name was Siddhartha Gautama and he was born in the north-eastern region of India close to the Nepalese border. He was the son [...]
The Cave of the Thousand Buddhas, China (0)
12/04/09 •
Dunhuang, the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas, North West China
Dunhuang is situated in North West China on the ancient Silk Route which connected Central Asia to India. Foreign Buddhists and Chinese disciples met the Dunhuang crossroads along the ancient trading route in the 3rrd and 4th C AD.
The ‘Cave’ is actually a collection of 492 [...]
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