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| | Hindu Temple Fractals |
 | | Not all Hindu temples are like this but a great many are. | | | Photo from Stella Kramrisch’s book The Hindu Temple. | | | The Hindu temple is an attractor with a variety of visual aspects, and wherever one engages one of them, entering a doorway, circumambulating (ritually walking clockwise around the whole edifice while intently gazing upon parts of it), or approaching the inner sanctuary, or worshipping there-- one is accessing an aspect of the whole. |
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http://www.liberalarts.iupui.edu/~wijackso/templefractals
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| | Temple |
| | The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. | | | A temple is a structure reserved for religious worship or sacrifice. | | | A Hindu and Buddhist temple in Cambodia and Thailand is known as a wat. |
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http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/t/te/temple.html
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| | Hindu Temple |
| | Temples of India (Circles of Stone): Mumbai, 1998. | | | The Hindu Temple sets out to resolve this deficiency in our lives by dissolving the boundaries between man and divinity. | | | The basic plan of a Hindu temple is an expression of sacred geometry where the temple is visualized as a grand mandala. |
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http://www.exoticindiaart.com/read/hindu_temple.htm
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| | In Pursuit of Sacred Science, Part III |
| | For if we follow the logic of Hindu scriptures, it is precisely this "co-habitation" of the dark and bright halves of the month that leads to the production of the Moon's digits, i.e., the remaining tier of 16 stupas and images. | | | In the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, the Tathagata is often portrayed at the center of a gathering, surrounded by his sixteen spiritual "sons," the bodhisattva, who implore the Master to roll the "Wheel of the Law" (dharmachakra). | | | In this way, the Javanese monarch's role as the pivot for the entire kingdom was meant to mirror the celestial state of affairs in the celestial abode of the Lord of the Devas on Mount Meru, where he is surrounded by thirty-two other Hindu divinities. |
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http://www.borobudur.tv/survey_3.htm
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| | Featured Articles |
| | Experience the cultural legacy of Tamilnadu as you browse through this bumper issue of Templenet with over 275 pages, depicting the glory of the ancient Shiva temples of India, glorified by the Tevaram hymns. | | | All these are ancient temples (over 1300 years old) featuring grand shrines to Ganesha. | | | Templenet is proud to present a comprehensive feature Abodes of Vishnu on the Sri Vaishnava Divya Desam s (temples revered by the hymns of the Alwar saints), describing in detail 108 ancient temples (and celestial abodes) of Vishnu. |
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http://www.templenet.com/articles.html
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| | Manas: Culture, Architecture of India |
| | The fabled temple at Somnath, renowned for its purported riches, is said to have been destroyed by the Muslim invader Mahmud of Ghazni, and after the attainment of Indian independence, the restoration of this temple became a matter of national pride for more ardent defenders of the faith. | | | Khajuraho, between 950-1030 A.D. These temples, which show Vaishnavite, Shaivite, and Tantric influence, have acquired a renewed reputation today as indices of India's libertine past, allegedly indicative of India's relaxed sexual mores before puritanical Muslims made India a sexually repressed society. | | | The weakness of Muslim dynasties in the north enabled Rajput kings to assert their independence; the results of this Hindu revival are to be seen in Chittor, and elsewhere in Rajasthan where massive forts dot the landscape. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Archit/Archit.html
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| | Sri Siva Vishnu Temple |
| | Functions of the Hindu Temple The Hindu temple is conceived as a link, which facilitates communion between man and divinity. | | | The companion article by the temple architect Ganapathi Stapathi, dwells on the spiritual link between the art and the Hindu concept of divinity. | | | Muslim invasion since the sixteenth century saw a mix of suppression of Hindu temples and tolerance or reverence by some enlightened Muslim rulers. |
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http://www.ssvt.org/about/Architecture1.asp
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| | 250 Ancient Temples Links |
| | Besides the temple a Buddhist monastery includes a relic shrine, a pagoda, a library, and quarters for the monks. | | | There are over 70,000 Buddhist temples in Japan, and the sites of these temples are believed to be sacred... | | | The Temple of the Emerald Buddha is the most important exle of Buddhist... |
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http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/temples.html
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| | Hindu Temple Of Atlanta History |
| | In the Hindu Temple of Atlanta, the mode of worship is in the Vaikasana style. | | | To the right of Lord Venkateswara is situated Sridevi an on the left is situated Sri Satyanarayana Swamy. | | | T he Vaishnava worship is again in two different styles, the Vaikasana and the Pancharatra. |
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http://www.hindutempleofatlanta.org/HTAHIS_6_1.htm
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| | Ancient Symbols |
| | The difference between a Hindu temple and other places of worship is that a Hindu temple is where gods live. | | | A temple, mosque, church or synagogue is a place for worship; a setting where rituals and ceremonies can be performed. | | | Second, what is it about a Hindu temple that makes it different from other places of worship? |
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http://www.fengshuiseminars.com/articles/ancientsymbols.html
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| | Hinduism - Temples Top Links |
| | Features hindu bhajans, lectures on religion and online hindu prayers of Radhe Krishna, Parvati Shiva, Ganesha, Vaishno Mata, Sita Rama and Hanumana. | | | Has information about temple directions, membership, history, photos, events, various hindu gods and goddesses and slokas. | | | Golden Temple - Amritsar, India - The Golden Temple or Darbar Sahib, situated in Amritsar, Punjab, is the most sacred temple for Sikhs. |
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http://www.hinduism-links.com/Temples.html
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| | Hinduism, temples and associations |
| | Indian Temple, Hindu Temple, Houses Of Worship, Sun Worship. | | | This temple is also known as Thenn Tirupati. | | | 108 Tirupati : Holy tour to the temples that are glorified by Azhwars Mangalasasanam. |
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http://www.hinduwebsite.com/temples.htm
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| | 11. The Ayodhya evidence debate |
| | These witnesses also describe first-hand how the place was revered by the Hindus as Rama’s birthsite, and that Hindus always came back to worship as closely as possible to the original temple site: they would not reasonably have done this except in continuation of a tradition dating back to before the Babri Masjid. | | | Oak himself explained that the Babri Masjid itself was built by Hindus as a temple, that “Babar had nothing to do with the Babri Masjid”, and that neither the Moghul nor any other Muslim ruler had demolished a Hindu temple at the site. | | | However, if it was really a Hindu sacred site, it is reasonable to expect that this status was explicitated with a temple, which must have adorned the site before the Babri Masjid was built. |
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http://voi.org/books/acat/ch11.htm
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| | Art & Architecture of indian temples |
| | The form of the Hindu temple,the contours of the bodies of the Hindu gods and goddesses,and the light, shade, composition, and volume in Indian painting are all used to glorify the mystery that resolves the conflict between life and death, time and eternity. | | | The temple architecture is one manifestation of the intense spirituality of the vast country of India. | | | The South Indian temples at Thanjavur, Madurai, and Rameswaram in the state of Tamilnadu, Belur and Halebid in the state of Karnataka ; North Indian temples at Baroli in Rajasthan, Varanasi in UttarPradesh and Sun temple in Orissa are the famous examples of these styles. |
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http://www.dnetservices.com/templeinfo/templeinfohtml/architecture.html
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| | Hindu Architecture |
| | In North-Indian temples, the mandapa (porch) is detached from the vimana (shrine), while a steeple houses the god, and worshippers stand in the pavilion. | | | The doorway is reached through a mandapa or pillared hall, where devotees congregate for prayers. | | | The Dravidian (southern style) is found in the temples between the Krishna river and Cape Comorin. |
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http://www.earchinfo.com/architecture/hindu.htm
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| | Art and Architecture of the Golden Temple |
| | Also it had four entrances, symbolic of the new faith which made no distinction between the four Hindu castes. | | | Major Cole described it as an adaptation of Mohammadan styles, flavoured with a good deal of Hindu tradition. | | | Fergusson considered the Golden Temple an example of the forms which Hindu temple architecture assumed in the nineteenth century. |
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http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/register.nsf/c30b7ff6c365f7db87256431006abaf2/771640dc31757f84872566410080ae1c!OpenDocument
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 16 Asian Art |
| | Man disturbs wife while she puts on make up | | | Swami Vivekananda - the Most Famous Hindu Monk | | | "I am a poor priest of a poor temple" |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks3.html
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| | Scaffold |
| | This study of mandalas is based in part on a course in the construction of the five mandalas of the Vajrakilaya tradition that I attended at Namgyal Tantric College, Dharamsala, India, in 1991, and on observation of mandala construction by various groups of Buddhist monks in India and the United States. | | | For more detail, particularly on temple construction, see my | | | This section will contain references to architects and architecture in classical Greek literature. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/scaffold.html
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| | Hindu Architecture - Great Buildings Online |
| | Kandariya Temple, by unknown, at Khajuraho, India, 1030. | | | Lingaraj Temple, by unknown, at Bhubaneswar, India, 1000. | | | Kailasa Temple, by unknown, at Ellora, Maharashtra, India, 750. |
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/hindu.html
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| | Kailasa Temple - Ellora, Maharashtra, India - Great Buildings Online |
| | Kailasa Temple - Ellora, Maharashtra, India - Great Buildings Online | | | The temple, which is dedicated to Shiva, the often threatening god of the Hindu trilogy, measures 109 feet wide by 164 feet long. | | | The 'liberated' mass in the center was then patiently carved from the living rock to produce a freestanding, two-story Hindu temple of dazzling complexity. |
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Kailasa_Temple.html
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| | ARHA385 - The Indian Temple |
| | This seminar explores the history, forms, and meanings of the Indian temple or devalaya, the pre-eminent building type in India's architectural tradition from the sixth through the sixteenth centuries. | | | The point of departure is morphological and stylistic analysis of the buildings themselves, so as to provide a firm basis for the subsequent investigation of such topics as architecture and cosmology, architecture and Hindu ritual, and the changing social, economic, and political functions of temples within medieval Indian society. | | | Hermann Kulke, "Royal Temple Policy and the Structure of Medieval Hindu Kingdoms" |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/course/arha385s.htm
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| | Dance and Hindu Temple Architecture: |
| | to explore the relationship between dance and architecture, two disciplines which deal with space in ways which are analogical and complementary, taking the Hindu temple and Indian classical dance as a starting point for the comparison; | | | to make this exploration of relevance to contemporary architectural work which serves and satisfies the socio-cultural needs of a South Asian diasporic community in its search for different, identity-defining spatialities. | | | to integrate theoretical questions with practice based research, providing a basis for charting an alternative, interactive account of historic Hindu architecture, moving away from assumptions of space as contained and bound; |
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http://www.dancetemple.org.uk
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