Prologue The Lahaul and Spiti region is also known as “A Little Tibet", as it has a similar terrain, vegetation, climate, topography and culture like that of Tibet. The local people pronounce the word Spiti as Piti which means, the middle country, and the valley also lies between Tibet, Ladakh, Kinnaur, Lahaul and Kullu in the Great Himalayan region. Food Habits The peoples take three meals a day. They take Ken or tshema in the morning, Shod or chicken in the noon and yangskin or Gongal in dinner.Buckwheat or Kathu is their staple food. the people also eat barley, wheat and rice.Other things are like salted tea mixed with butter, thupka, tentuk, momos and tsampa are the favorite. The locally extracted beer or lugri or tsagti or chhang is profusely taken. Occasionally, the locally distilled liquor is also taken. Tobacco smoking is very common among the aged people, but for the ladies it is a taboo. The people sit around the fire for weaving work in winter, with endless cups of sweet and salty tea spiced with song, laughter and tales. The Keylong Museum The archaeological finds, ancient Thanka paintings, objects of everyday use in ancient times are displayed in a museum of Tribal Art at Keylong. There is an auditorium for hosting cultural events. The manuscripts in Bhoti Scripts and Tankri documents are also preserved in the museum. It is open for the general public on all working days including Sunday. A small museum of artifacts has also been .established by the sect of the Nono at Kyuling in Spit. Nono was an erstwhile ruling wazir of Spiti. The Road to Spiti The desert landscape on high altitude with virtually no civilization till Kaza is an awesome sight to behold. The journey to unspoiled beauty of Spiti valley is a photogra... ... middle of paper ... ...r earthquake and at last in 1980's after a fire accident. Tabo Monestery The ancient village of Tabo situated on the left bank of the river Spiti, is about 163 km from Kalpa or 47 Kms from Kaza. Located at an altitude of 3050 meters above sea level, the village has one of the most important cave Buddhist monastery, next only to the Tholing Gompa in Tibet. The largest monastic complex in the valley and one of the oldest functioning Buddhist monastery, it has been declared a protected monument by the Archaeological Survey of India. The original wall paintings and artifacts are still in good condition in the monastery. The ancient murals are surprisingly fresh and pure in line and color. Regarded as the Ajanta of the Himalayas, the monastery has several caves and ancient structures, which date back to 996 AD. It is flanked on either side by the lofty and barren hills.
The Ancient Egyptian sculpture, “Statue of Nykara and His Family”, was sculpted during the late fifth dynasty. The sculpture is a depiction of Nykara, his wife, Nubkau, and son, Ankhma-Re. The statue is in poor condition with pieces of limestone missing and chips on the three subject’s faces and bodies. The painted limestone shows the conventional colors for the male and female subjects. There is a clear discoloration among Nykara and his son’s bodies. The brownish red color they once were has eroded to a light yellowish color, which resembles the purposeful color of Nykara’s wife. The hieroglyphs on Nykara’s seat insinuate that the sculpture is meant to be viewed from the front view. This is also evident by the way the three subjects are facing forward in frontal view. There are hieroglyphs on both the chair and base of the statue near Nykara’s wife and son’s feet.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South. Tibet, 13th century C.E. Mineral pigments on cotton cloth, height 361/2”. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Food was something everybody needed. The Makah ate a lot of fish and still do today. Fish was the main thing they ate. The Makah also ate deer, seal, whale, and more. The Makah ate everything with fish oil even dessert. They loved fish oil so much they had to eat it with everything. The Makah were hunters. They would go out in canoes and catch as much as they could. The Makah ate very little vegetables. They mostly ate meat. The only vegetables they ate were in the spring when the woman would find some plants. They would dry the fish for the winter and other times when it was needed. How they cooked the food was with a cedar wood box. They would make a fire and put coals on the fire. The Makah would put water in the box and add the hot coals. Then they would add the food. They would take out cold coals and put in hot ones. The Makah ate with their hands and ate on cedar mats. The Makah didn’t have any kind of utensils so they just used their hands for everything.
The Southern California Buddhist Church established in Los Angeles on Jackson Street with its first resident minister, the Rev. Koyu Uchida in 1905. In the year of 1917, the name of the church changed to Hongwanji Buddhist Church of Los Angeles, and its location changed to Yamato Hall. The new temple was constructed and built at central ave and 1st street in the year of 1925. When going to the temple, the first thing you see is a grand temple with a Japanese style architecture. It has a beautiful lawn area and a big bell. There is a lot of great work and dedication towards this construction that you can tell how important Buddhism means to the founders of this temple. The master artist created a statue of the founder of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhism which was very interesting. I did not see a Buddha statue outside of the temple but once I was inside the temple I got to see a lot of interesting art showcasing the life of the historical Buddha. The Altar itself sets apart from the rest because it is paved in gold. The decorators of this altar designed it just like the ones in Japan. As you can see the design of the temple was well planned out, and that the people who wanted this temple built must have been very proud of their Japanese heritage because everything felt like it was a total different atmosphere. However, there were pews inside the temple giving a Christian essence to the
Deep within the trees little hooded men walk along a path to meditate and pray dressed in brown robes tied with nautical rope. They dwell in silence and live a life of celibacy. This is what most of think of when we hear the word monk. Throughout the years, monks have always been people of intrigue. They live a different lifestyle than most. They live a life of seclusion far from the mores of modern society, which often makes people ponder who these people really are and why they choose to participate in such a foreign religious movement. This paper will attempt to unravel the mysteries of this peculiar movement of by researching it's origin, the true meaning of a silent lives, and how key leaders have helped to develop it one of the most popular movements in the history of Christianity. A movement called Monasticism.
Madagascar’s cuisine can be clearly marked by its sheer simplicity. The food is prepared without too many spices, but the lack of spices does not make the food dull and bland. Cuisines of France, China, India and also East African and Arabian cultures have all made their influence felt in Madagascar. The traditional cuisine of Madagascar consists mainly of rice. The rice is called “Vary” and it is typically eaten with some accompaniment, which is called the “Laoka”. As you move down the country towards the southwest regions, you will get to eat rice that may be supplemented or replaced by ground maize. However rice is the main diet of the natives, and is available in bounty. The native people have become very resourceful in developing huge numbers of scrumptious preparations with this one simple grain.
It is well known that the religions of Asia have spread across the continent and lingered within the culture of the land and the minds of their people. It can be seen how Taoist, Confucius, Hindu, and Buddhist thought have influenced Asia and its people. Buddhism especially has had a profound effect on the Asian world and even its close neighbors in the Middle East. Statues of the grandeur yet modest Buddha can been observed all over the continent. The Longmen Grottoes, the site of the Vairocana Buddha, is one example of a giant Buddha statue that has been erected in worship. Buddha statues were erected north of modern Afghanistan, north of Kabul, a place thought untouched by Buddhism. Unfortunately for that Afghanistan Buddha statue, it was destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. These sites show the true expanding powers of Buddhism across Asia.
... for Champollion who discovered the Bentresh Stela, which is now in the Louvre in Paris (Wilkinson 2000: 165). Located in the southern area of Akhenaten is the Maru Temple or viewing temple (Wilkinson 2000: 141). The royal family may have layed out in the sun here (Wilkinson 2000: 141). It had gardens and walkways and pools in it (Wilkinson 2000: 141).
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So this museum was built by the local resident’s memory piece by the piece. Moreover, those materials contain the haptic feeling and the past time would be collected and preserved.
This desert is in an arid area between the Andes mountain range and the Pacific Ocean. This desert also lives on an alluvial plain. Furthermore, since its distance stretches four hundred kilometers South of Lima, the Pampas of Jumana covers about four hundred fifty square feet kilometers. Throughout all this land, one theory is believed to be that extraterrestrials left confused people when they came to visit earth and that is the myth on why the Nazca lines were created. Another theory is, believed that Nazca Indians and Lines appeared only after the visitors from other stars naturally visited on earth. The reason why this land is so fascinating is because no one really knows how the Nazca Indians appeared on the Peru desert, and why these Nazca Lines were created on this land. While living in the Peru desert the Nazca Indian grew crops from underground water sources traced on the land. Another way the crops received waters was when the Pacific Ocean’s morning mist wafted to the land, and the trees would trap the water mist in their leaves, so when there was no rain to fully water the lands, the trapped water mist in the trees leaves would water the crops. The Nazca Indians grew crops that highly dependent on water and many of these crops planted back then people eat still to this day. Based on iconography, excavated remains indicate that the Nazca people had a varied diet, composed of corn, squash, sweet, potato, yucca, ginger, banana, and even small traces of various fish. In addition, Na...
The “Sacred Tree,” (fig. 1) was originally positioned behind the king’s throne. The scene shows two genii, sometimes with birds’ heads and sometimes with men’s heads and the horned hats of gods. Each of the winged figures holds a bucket and reaches out with an oval object toward a stylized “tree.” The composition has been read as being based on bilateral symmetry, with the vertical stalk-like structure crowned by a palmette. A meticulous examination reveals that although balanced, it has many discrepancies on both sides that deviate from perfect mirror symmetry. Ashurnasirpal appears twice, shown from two sides, dressed in ceremonial robes and holding a mace connoting his authority. The figure of the king on the right makes an invocative gesture a god in a winged disk in the top center of the relief. Ashur, the national god or Shamash, the god of the sun and justice, may be identified as the god who confers the king divine right. On the left, the king holds a ring, an ancient Mesopotamian symbol of divine kingship, in one...
With the Shaolin monastery in China and the Enryakuji in Japan playing important roles amongst the Buddhist monasteries and becoming deeply involved in the secular world, we see a lot of similarities and differences about the relationship between the religious and secular worlds in China and Japan. We also see that Daoism and Shinto religions shaped the monasteries evolvement over the centuries.
In the following essay, I will be comparing and contrasting to architectural pieces by the Indians. The first is the Taj Mahal, a building constructed from white marble that took seventeen years to build in honor of Shah Jahan’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Z. Haq). This piece of architectural beauty belonged to the Mughal’s, the Muslim emperors in India (Z. Haq). The second is the Great Stupa at Sanchi, a holy, dome shaped structure that covers the body of the Buddha in honor of him and his contributions to Buddhism (Fischer, Julia). Furthermore, this structure was made of ruins, rocks, mud, and covered in bricks (Fischer, Julia). Both pieces of architecture are significant to the Indians, however they do contrast in some ways.