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Thursday, 25 June, 2009

Hanging Temple photos


View 悬空寺 photos (shared by Swee Fun)
(link to a Google Doc slideshow, hit spacebar for navigation)

The Hanging Temple (simplified Chinese: 悬空寺; traditional Chinese: 懸空寺; pinyin: Xuánkong Sì) is a temple built into a cliff ( 75m Above the ground )near Mount Heng in the province of Shanxi. The closest city is Datong, 65 kilometers to the northwest. Along with the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is unique not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it includes Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian elements.

Related: 悬空寺 (百度百科)
Wikipedia 悬空寺 (Hanging Temple)

Tags: China, history, Photos, religion, architecture, design


Posted in Chinese-中文 , Buddhism , Photos , World


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Friday, 1 August, 2008

Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology

A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present.

In his lecture, Lewis explains the spread of Buddhism throughout the world due to the portability of Buddhism. Buddhism spreads through the relics, images, monks and buddhist texts. ..

We can never know the full cause (history) of an event. ..

We must always be aware of the moment because it is this moment that is the magic and secret of life. ..

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Tags: lecture, religion, self-awareness, video, karma, history


Posted in Buddhism , World


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Thursday, 11 October, 2007

An Essay by Einstein - The World as I See It

From American Institute of Physics.

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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

Tags: nature, mystery, religion, history


Posted in World


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