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Sentence Examples The temples are studded with gilded statues, intricate woodwork, paintings, and tapestries. Walking along the ghats to the Bhutanatha temples brought one to two priceless images. It stood in sharp contrast to the gaudiness of the other temples we had visited. Under Babur Hinduism was tolerated and new Hindu temples were built with his permission. Outstanding examples of Korean architecture can be seen in historic palaces and Buddhist temples and pagodas. Gorakhnath, being an incarnation of Shiva, is worshipped as a deity by the Jogis, and has a number of temples dedicated to him. His untrimmed beard was gray at the temples and ran in milky streaks below his chin. At the end of the war, these supplies remained untouched in arsenals, warehouses, schools, and even Buddhist temples scattered throughout Japan. Over the years, Gurudeva's devotees have pilgrimaged to India, visiting major temples such as Chidambaram, Rameshvaram and Palani Hills. In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants. In 1999, 2000 and 2001 he conducted three Innersearch journeys, consecrating new temples in Alaska, Trinidad and Denmark. The temples are built next to bubbling springs of hot water that surge from under the ground. The more temporary Greeks left gymnasia, statues, temples and inscriptions as far east as Afghanistan. The Cambodian, Laotian and Burmese temples followed the practice of the Thai wats. Palatial architecture gave way to residences, temples to embankments, platforms to the city's waterworks. Stone staircases, terraces, fire temples and pavilions covering 12 hectares are evidence of the Achaemenians ' achievements. The many temples that dot the countryside have been either damaged or have collapsed. Between the ages 7 to 20 months the fontanelle, temples and back of head are particularly vulnerable when an infant is learning to walk. He leaned back and sighed deeply, rubbing his temples with his forefingers and thumbs. Knowledge has always been Hinduism's forte and almost all the ancient temples had specially dedicated space for encouraging arts and literature. Show More Sentences The settlement was founded in 628BC, and such was its bounding economic success that, within 100 years, seven temples were under construction. As the cycle repeats, panic starts to rise inside me, causing my heart to race and my temples to pound. Instead of foot patrols, saffron-clad monks circumambulate Buddhist temples in the pre-dawn light, armed only with prayer beads. Stepped-pyramid structures were also built as bases for temples in pre-Columbian Central America. Take, for example, the symbolic doll face garishly created with white greasepaint around the forehead and temples of the models. Some people believe that visiting and making merit at nine temples in a single day will bring them luck and good karma. In those days Kathaks were attached to temples, telling people stories from the epics and Puranas. This afternoon, I spent about an hour gently massaging my throbbing temples. In many other healing temples for agitated people physical restraints are used, but they are not used here. Dozens of agonized male faces are packed together like grapes in a wine press, veins bulging from their temples. Amongst the first buildings to be set out in the new Hellenistic city were the agora and the monumental temples on the acropolis. They are shaped like Mayan temples and they rear above the light and smog with the astonishing bulk of Ayers Rock in the desert. Smiling a toothy grin, he put his hands to his temples, his index fingers extended, and reared his head. Back in the sensorium, the attendant technicians peel adhesive sensors from his chest, temples, groin. Flushing the toilet and reaching up for a paper towel, she wiped her mouth and closed her eyes, rubbing her temples. The man was a little shorter than him with wiry black hair that was graying at his temples. When the Greeks conquered Egypt they recognised in him attributes of their medicine god Asclepius, and continued to build temples to him. My temples are thumping, my pulse is racing, and I'm starting to shake, visibly. Patch and Pockets sat over to the side out of danger, nursing head bruises with cold packs pressed against their temples. It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy. Show More Sentences It is building up trust through station tours and visits to schools, social centres, mosques and temples. The book begins with an essay on symmetry and then describes the use of symmetry and proportion in the design of temples. During the Lantern Festival, most temples are illuminated by colorful lanterns of all shapes and sizes. Taoists skillfully built temples that conformed to the contours of the land. The birthday of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, falls between late March and late April and is observed by visiting Taoist temples. There was a period when the youth were seen avoiding temples or any religious activities. We saw ancient Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres and walled medieval cities. And now she sat in the withdrawing room, listening to Lorraine chatter on while the blood in her temples pounded painfully. Massaging her temples, she sat back down at the desk and began to transcribe her notes. His temples burned and his sores itched, like a thousand worms underneath his skin, crawling and burrowing deeper, ever deeper inside him. In China, lacebark pines are highly valued and are often planted near temples. He boasts of weeding old sanctuaries, and uncovering the ground-plans of old temples so that he could rebuild them as they were supposed to be. Indeed, there are Hindu temples which have in the sanctum sanctorum no image at all but a yantra, a symbolic or mystic diagram. Originally, the Magians had neither temples, altars, nor religious symbols of any kind. Every city-state had temples to its patron deity and shrines and altars to many others. The Mesopotamians built massive temples or ziggurats which housed the priestly class, the human representatives of the gods. Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men. Two are raised on high plinth, like the temples at Khajuraho, but their shikharas are like the early Orissan examples. For example, Hawass said, on show along with the mummy of Ramses II would be models of his Nubian temples, statues, reliefs and a biography. There are countless other Buddhist and Shinto shrines and temples in Japan. Show More Sentences He had a thick shock of dark brown hair, with a little gray peeking in around his temples and just above his ears. Hindus seek to find God on the inside while also worshiping God in the temples. On these days they do not enter temples or home shrines, or approach holy men. Every day elephants bless thousands of Hindu devotees at temples all over India. He examines Huguenot temples, the symbol of the Protestant place in France. We must remember that our bodies are temples and must be treated with reverence. The patterns should be painted obliquely across the face, starting at the forehead and temples. Next comes the pain that invades your forehead, temples and the nape of your neck. She rubbed her forehead and temples in an unsuccessful attempt to remove the headache. The present temples were mostly reopened after the formation of the Tokugawa shogunate. These may be coarse grey hair, prematurely grey hair, or the grey hair around the temples and hairlines. Al had a heart-shaped face and mullet haircut peppered gray at the temples. That's a good time to seek a shady respite at one of the city's more than 40 temples, known as wats. Massage a few drops of the oil on the temples and across the forehead, and then gently down and around the jawbone. Therefore, they were always found around Jinas and that has reflected their presence in the Jain temples and also around the idols of the Jinas. The joss houses or temples of Chinatown have no external beauty save in the carved panels of their balconies. Commonly called joss houses, some of these temples survived into the twentieth century. Some people spent more than 400,000 yuan to gain the right to plant the first joss stick in various temples. The forums are surrounded by temples, buildings known as basilicas, and honorary buildings, to honor victorious generals. Inside the temples, however, bas-relief was employed, since it does not produce such contrasts and creates a serene effect in the semi-dark. Show More Sentences Then a pulsing throb like the beginnings of a migraine started deep in my temples. His fingertips massage his temples, and he seems remarkably interested in the pattern of the throw rug in front of the square glass coffee table. Despite living as Russian subjects, the Kalmyks were free to practice Buddhism, and they built dozens of temples. The Khmer language is taught at home and in the temples, but it is not permitted in any official business. Still even this amount will help alleviate the banging techno on the temples and the overpowering, unfightable, desire to die. Steel plants and coking furnaces were no longer our temples to Vulcan, they were sources of pollution and occupational disease. Massaging your temples, shoulders and neck can help reduce the pain of headaches. What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat. Although idol worship is not indicated in Sikhism, many Sikhs attend Hindu temples. In most of the temples, the elephants are kept in a secluded room, which has a cement floor. Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style. With the closure of the temples, sacred property reverted to the imperial fisc. Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples. Cement has been slapped on and ugly box-shaped structures built abutting the graceful forms of the ancient temples. They are also attracted by the religious offerings of the Hindus in temples and try to emulate them. The avenues of carved deities, courtyards and temples are seething with trumpeting musicians and drummers, with processions escorting deities. Do you know that more than 30,000 temples were converted into mosques during Mohammedan rule? Stephanos remembers the tulsi seen outside temples whenever he sees the basil in Cyprus. Cool, cotton clothes are a must in the heat and humidity, but cover up to visit palaces and temples. Placing them back in their case, I closed my eyes and began to rub my temples, round and round in a steady and gentle circular motion. Show More Sentences I put both elbows on the glossy table surface, rubbed my temples, and shut my eyes. If we look at carved gods on heathen temples we see fearful, gruesome, repulsive demonic representations that millions bow down to and worship. Her hair was straight and had two braids that went from her temples to the back of her head. Tamil temples, with their towering gopurams, are well known in southern India. There are other temples in the South where saplings grow in crevices in gopurams and walls. You see Thais offering white lotuses, waving incense and kneeling in quiet prayer at the various temples to the Enlightened One. Buddha images in temples and in homes are washed and polished and sprinkled with scented lustral water, which also brings merit. It was the image of a man with blue eyes, receding auburn hair above the temples and small, thin lips. The gurudwaras, or Sikh temples, have always been decorated with pictures of Hindu devas and devis. London is the hub of the Indian community and culture in Europe, and home to the largest Hindu and Sikh temples outside India. Silinder Pardesi started his singing career at a very young age, singing in Sikh temples and being influenced by his idol Mohd. At the temples, Hindu and Sikh pilgrims wrap rice in a thin pink scarf and place it in the water to be cooked, blessed and then eaten. He had black hair that was slightly silvered at the temples, and bright, sparkling blue eyes. He looked almost like her brother, tall, and moderately muscled, with black hair, silvering at the temples. The older man looked to be in his early fifties, with dark brown hair beginning to silver at the temples, and dark chestnut eyes. Thousands of Hindu temples and shrines were torn down and a punitive tax on Hindu subjects was re-imposed. Some performers emphasize the spiritual zealotry of the dance, whose early practitioners performed devotionally in Hindu temples. It ranges from rustic villages, Bedouin encampments, skyscraping cities, tumbledown temples and other ancient ruins. In the teeming temples of the mother goddesses Vindya Vashini, Kali Koh and Ashtapuja we again saw corbels carved like human women with wings. From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys. Show More Sentences Aihole is one of those remarkable sites that span time and has evidence of dolmens, Buddhist chaityas and stupas, Jain and Hindu temples. At the higher levels these spirits overlap strongly with Buddhism and are embodied in stupas and temples. Early hieroglyphic numerals can be found on temples, stone monuments and vases. Corsock House on the A712 near Castle Douglas is a David Bryce baronial house with temples, a water garden and a small loch. So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are. In the public sphere, great public buildings, monuments, temples and mausoleums are a sign of excess. Do not destroy the temples and mausoleums of the community and people who abide by the rules and laws of the government. Somewhere lie public buildings, temples, warehouses, a Forum with a basilica in it and a Governor's Palace. The exhibition includes original town maps used by the Pilgrims visiting temples in Indian cities and drawings of early Orcadian settlements. The Devadasi Act of 1929, which was initiated for the abolition of the dedication of devadasis to temples, put them in a deep freeze. It is no longer confined to the temples, to the Gotipuas and Maharis of Odissi, the devadasis of Bharatanatyam. The ceremonial centres included temples, pyramids, ball-courts, palaces, and plazas, usually linked by causeways or wide paved roads. Local monks have also taken advantages of the natural caves and have made them part of their temples. Greek temple pediments were stripped bare and the sculpture set into the pediments of temples in Rome. Men's models have slightly oval forms with double bridges, slim metal temples and steel fronts. They are temples to the French way of food which must surely never be allowed to come under the control of bean counters and marketing men. All the while the water pressed against my temples and I thought that very soon my ears would pop. We've studied the foundations of temples, hippodromes and harbours and our task was to rebuild them from the ruins using the latest technology. It is an initial surprise to see gleaming white temples and familiar British road signs alongside the fields of tall green sugar cane. These four temples have a meditation hall and a major monks' training center within the same compound. Show More Sentences As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists. Churning masses of humanity, sunsets, temples and mountains all come alive as do the magnificent Bengal tigers to which the film is a tribute. The sun itself was worshipped and regarded as a supernatural force, and all temples contained a shrine to the sun, Ra, or both. The landscaped gardens are complemented by eastern temples, Nepalese pagodas and roaming peacocks. There weren't buildings or palaces or castles, there weren't temples or churches. The gods are brought out of their temples and paraded down the streets in elaborately carved palanquins rolled along by four men. Singing of devotional songs like bhajans has been one of the significant ceremonials at temples and other religious congregations. Here these pandas and pujaris control everything in and around the temples and cause serious harm to the devotees congregating at the temples. Very few Malaysian Hindu temples conduct religious classes or provide spiritual discourses by knowledgeable teachers, pundits or swamis. Rodriguez was good-looking with dark hair that was pomaded back and tinged with gray around the temples. Morgan here says you find the abacus between the triglyphs in the frieze section of the entablature of classical Greek Doric temples. Dull a tension headache by massaging a few drops of peppermint essential oil into your temples. It was only natural that the percussionists who earned their subsistence by drumming in temples gradually became a class by themselves. Although menstruating women are considered ritually impure and may not enter temples, discrimination against women is not pronounced. In the blazing noonday sun, they linger in bus stops, near temples, hotels, supermarkets and glitzy shops fronts. And here, too, places of worship sprout, Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and Sikh gurudwaras. You should be making circular motions with your index fingers round your temples. Almost everywhere there are new churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples springing to life along our vast exurban periphery. Multiethnicity is demonstrated by the many churches, synagogues, Hindu temples, and mosques. Individual churches, synagogues, and temples could make their own rules about which marriages they would bless. Show More Sentences Here, ancient Akragas, with its valley of three superb 5th-century-BC temples, is neatly distinct from the tight, clamorous modern city. The startling pastiness that had settled on his features quickly disappeared as he nodded, rubbing his temples lightly. One hand clenched into an agitated fist, Lain rubbed her temples wearily with the other. In male pattern baldness, which is hereditary, the hair is usually lost at the temples and the crown. The Temple of Kom Ombo actually consists of two separate temples, each with its own entrance, colonnades, hypostyle hall and sanctuary. They followed the classic model of Greek temples, with their rectangular rows of columns, topped by beams and relieved by a triangular pediment. They even went to heathen temples, worshipped idols, and called to the Devil for help. All menial tasks like cleaning in temples and private households were undertaken by bondmaids whose position was not high in the society. Unlike Angkor, the temples in Bagan are unhidden in thick jungles and can be seen rising out of a vast and treeless plain. Here, many temples double and triple their admission fees to take advantage of tourists. Buddhism receives donations for its temples which are automatically docked from the wages of civil servants. He laid a shaking hand on his son's forehead, then smoothed the black hair that was now streaked with gray at the temples. He was an older man, hair graying at the temples and a handlebar moustache taking up most of his face. He was short and stocky, with brown hair that was graying at the temples and a grizzled gray beard. The temples require urgent restoration by skilled craftsmen who work on heritage structures. Le Pen is not welcome in Birmingham where churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, mandhirs and temples fill the skyline. Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples. The temples were the preserve of classical arts till the arrival of Colonists whose dispensation, by definition, changed the rules of patronage. Among the thousands of faces painted in the Buddhist cave temples of western China, there are some distinctly non-Chinese features. With nearly 33,000 temples, Tamil Nadu is literally a goldmine for epigraphists. Show More Sentences They placed the gel electrodes to their temples and the strobe visor in front of their eyes. Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. White hair blows forward on to his temples, flutters like downy feathers over his ears. Seated in the same room was the King himself, his tired and drawn face resting in his hand as he slowly massaged his own temples. Several of the miniatures feature caryatids holding up the mountains and temples. The largest were heiau waikaua, or war temples, at which sacrifices occurred. The annexe has the feel of a private house with a wood fire and stupendous views of the temples of Baalbek. There seems to be endless jewelled demons, gilded temples and tall pagodas. Anawrahta's capital, Pagan, was sacked by the Mongols in 1287 and the city with its many thousand pagodas and temples was abandoned. Across the world, temples, pagodas, sacred land and water formations, manuscripts and sculptures are under threat from a variety of sources. Documents written on papyri were found in some pyramid temples, especially at Abusir. It consists of a central block with two small temples forming pavilions, all with grand porticoes and linked by colonnades. They produced bright, colourful paintings of chariots, horses, temples and other scenes associated with life in the time of the Romans. A hand went up to her hair as she felt it falling out of the bun in wisps beside her temples. Rubbing her temples concernedly, Vicky sat back down, ignoring the stares of her classmates. The art can still be seen in frescoes and ceilings of old palaces and temples all over the State. Rich ornaments of fruited vines are found on the walls of ancient temples in Samtavisi, Ikalto, Zarmza, Gelati, Nikortsminda, and Vardzia. Most people in Thailand are cremated after three to seven days of funerary ceremonies and their ashes kept in a jar at temples. On the list are 16 and 17th century Chola temples as well as an old dargah and a church. Show More Sentences In a different kind of garden some of these pieces might take on the character of the gazebos and temples that dot landscape gardens. A feature of these temples is the hundreds of statues of cross-legged tirthankaras or deified Jain teachers. Olympian fields were as much temples for religious devotion as sports complexes. I made the usual rounds of Hindu temples, dharmashalas, meditation centers, pathasalas and soaked up all I could about the Hindu dharma. The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods. He appears to be in a vigorous middle age, his black hair greying at the temples. He's greying, but in a distinguished manner, at the temples and behind the ears. But I don't think the gurdwaras, mosques and temples have played a major role either. This divine origin made fire a sacred element, and the Greeks maintained fires in front of their temples. Finally, after writing her last answer, she put her pencil down and massaged her temples. The island offers a treasure trove of beautiful ancient temples, stunning scenery and golden windswept beaches for discovery at your leisure. In Shiavite temples what is more common than a statue of Shiva is a stone linga, usually with a yoni. His phallus, or lingam, enshrined in most Hindu temples, is worshipped and revered by the world's 300 million followers of the Hindu religion. Perhaps only those who have seen the untouched splendour of a Chola temple can truly comprehend the damage done to the temples of the north. Guys today treat their bodies as temples and liquor is an abomination. The temples are run like mini theme parks where faux monks are more interested in asking visitors to part with cash for trinkets and palm-reading. My forehead, mouth and temples have the tingling numbness, too. She closed her eyes, and he placed his hands flat against her temples. She put her fingers to his temples and rubbed gently in circles. He placed his hand on each of her temples and let his forehead touch hers. Show More Sentences Increasingly, hotels are high-concept temples to the urban lifestyle. The more illustrious and affluent dead were interred beneath mausolea in the form of temples or domestic houses, commemorative arches, and columns. In addition, two main temples were constructed on the acropolis, and a thriving seaport at present-day Minet el-Beida was located about half a mile away. Many temples were built by devout first-generation Indian immigrants. In the palm groves where one might expect temples and adobe villages, there are whitewashed churches and old villas with genteel balconies and shuttered windows. It's a Chinese tradition to have a joss stick counter outside their temples, so devotees can light them and leave when there is no time to actually walk in and pray. Its symbolism speaks to them of service, communion, mutual forgiveness, oneness, and recognition of the fact that their bodies are temples of the Spirit. Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo. From my neck to my temples, there is a throbbing soreness on both sides of my face, all radiating from the hinge of my jawbone. Like the Hindu temples and the Sikh gurdwaras, the mosque as an architectural type, despite centuries of evolution, is a novelty in North America. There will also be a major development in the multi-faith programme, with gurdwaras, mosques, temples and churches participating throughout the 11-day festival. Beneath all this, he wore a coif of mail, which was more close fitting than the camail and was held in place by means of a leather strap around his temples. Ideally the patterns should be painted obliquely across the face, starting at the forehead and temples, and running down to the opposite side of the face. Devotees must know the position of the sun when observing their religious rituals, and their temples contain an inner sanctum in which burns a perpetual fire. He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Unraveled scrolls of ancient calligraphic writing cluttered the open floor, and watercolor tapestries of jungle temples hung on the otherwise barren wall. Though there was iconoclasm at the beginning, as zealots decapitated statues and the like in temples and shrines, this soon passed as sultans cracked down on it. Women tend to lose their hair in an all-over thinning pattern, while men tend to experience a receding hairline and general balding over the crown and temples. There's ornament in columns and cornices, rustication and pilasters, urns, anthemia, and pediments, with temples and colonnades high in the sky, topped by spires and finials. The average day takes in about four to five hours walking in total, regularly stopping in remote villages for lemon tea, to visit temples and chat to the local people. Show More Sentences In its heyday, the city was enclosed by a wall some 8km in circumference, enclosing at one corner a citadel that contained a ziggurat, temples, and palaces. She gave out a low moan, the only sound she could currently force out of her throat, and attempted to raise her hands to massage her throbbing temples. You might have prayed for him, offered nariyals at the nearest temples, and if not anything else, watched the army take efforts to help this poor little soul out of the hole. We encounter here something entirely different from the most beautiful cathedrals, mosques, the Indian and Siamese temples or pagodas, and even from the temples of China. Until early in the 20th century many old mosques had ancient bo trees next to them indicating that the sites were once occupied by Buddhist temples. Like many of Trenkwalder's sculptures, these pieces are strongly architectonic, evoking cathedrals, pillared halls and Greek temples, among other structures. Magnificent Greek Doric temples abounded in the latter and a full spectrum of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian style was allowed to flourish on the Aegian coast. Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood. The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities. Deep in the Guatemalan rainforest lay the ruins of numerous Mayan temples. When everyone is worried about losing their built up areas that serve as shops and residences, the magnificent gopuras of the temples stand in eloquent silence. Based on preliminary ethnographic research in five Javanese communities with major Hindu temples, I explore the political history and social dynamics of Hindu revivalism. Sirens blared loudly in my ears, deepening the throb in my temples. Many of the priests sat upon the rafts and wharves before their temples. My wife and I recently toured the tombs and temples of the pharaohs along the Upper Nile. The book includes photographs of the caves and the temples where the paintings are situated, along with some bronzes and sculptures found therein. She'd pressed her fingertips to his temples and stared into his eyes. By the end of the fifth century, the Parthenon and two other temples stood on the acropolis. Visitors picnicked and bathed on the flat slabs of rock between the eight broad strands on the falls, and then worshipped at the small temples enshrining hero stones. While my better half was absorbed in details of converted temples, under-floor heating, and plunge pools, I was able to get on with a little botanising. Show More Sentences She leaned forward and rubbed her temples, sighing in vexation. On the island you can still see Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches. Most come for the beaches, jungles, hiking paths, luxury resorts, and the temples of neighboring Cambodia. Dance has moved from temples to durbars and now to the public stage. There he created the landscaped garden with temples, statues, grottoes, glades and a series of urns, columns, monoliths and headstones, many of them inscribed. Such imposing classical receptacles are associated with pagan temples, worship and libations, and they thus introduce a sense of solemn ritual and ceremony. Architects, painters, potters and other craftsman and artists often accompanied the monks and it was these people who constructed the great temples of Japan. Dresser went to every part of that still mysterious country, visiting potteries, workers in wood and metal, artists, temples and the Emperor Meiji himself. He is six feet and 201 pounds and has brown hair that is beginning to recede at the temples. The area outside Ubud is worth exploring for its temples and scenery. In countries outside India, temples have often been fashioned from converted premises, from schools, deconsecrated churches, homes, even factories. These temples would have housed the cult statue of the deity, for example the head of Minerva found at Bath, and were not used for congregational worship. Once dreaded as cesspools of infection, hospitals began to be seen as temples of healing and citadels of science, affording them a new moral identity. The Bangkokians poured out on the roads to pay obeisance in temples. But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty. Anthea, eye clinic manager at Bradford University's department of optometry, and the team treated up to 200 people a day in schools, village centres and temples in India. The Greeks could hold I think, opposite things together, usually at one end of their temples there was a statue of great Olympian calm, at the other of dark carnal struggle. The book gives you a detailed introduction to Beijing, such as geography, palaces, temples, bystreets and well-known persons with more than 200 photos. We need modern temples to cater to the requirements of modern times. While most temples in central Burma are Burmese in style, the temples of Shan State tend to have a distinctive look that is referred to as the Shan style. Show More Sentences Most people normally think in terms of punching or striking to the back of the head, temples, side of the neck, and edge of the jaw next to the ear to stun, or knock out. They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples. So much so, dancers of other forms like Orissi in east, Sanjukta Panigrahi and Sonal Mansingh, expressed desire to serve as devadasis in temples, an irony lost on all. How would you talk your temples into throbbing and your throat into constricting? The tours begin in Hanoi, where guests will visit the Museum of Ethnology, the old craft quarter and several pagodas and temples, including the Tay Phuong Pagoda. Standing in the shadows of the colossal statues in front of the twin temples of Abu Simbel, one can only feel humble by human ingenuity, both past and present. Experience the ancient mystical city of Ho Chi-Minh and its Eastern traditions, Buddha temples, towering pagodas and colorful oriental river markets. Monuments, temples, pagodas have been restored for use and for tourism. Belgians had oblong heads because Belgian mothers wrapped their infants in swaddling clothes and slept them as much as possible on their sides and temples. Her eyes were exaggerated with thick lines of kohl reaching all the way to her temples. It was common for ancient Greek temples to be built over or near the tombs of local heroes. The pilots thoughts reverted to the pain stabbing at his temples. The walls of temples were carved with images of Portuguese visitors and Arab traders, of Brahmins honouring the Buddha and Buddhists worshipping Hindu deities. The temple at Madurai is one of the few temples in India containing both male and female deities where the Goddess is always worshipped before the Gods. By the same token many of the Tarascans experienced the cultural shock of having their pre-Hispanic idols, temples and religious regalia destroyed by Franciscan missionaries. Dyed eggs were hung in Egyptian temples, and the egg was regarded as the emblem of regenerative life proceeding from the mouth of the great Egyptian god. The walls are still not over-decorated, but in later temples this changes. The converts among the merchants and nomadic rulers built temples, pagodas and cave sanctuaries carved into the canyon cliffs and mountains along the Yellow River. In the sanctuaries, besides the temples, there was a theatre and a stadium, because the Greeks used to pay the same attention to the soul, the spirit and the body. In the fourth century BC, temples of healing, venerating the god Asclepias were erected all over the Grecian world from Epidaurus to Tricca, from Pergamon to Corinth. Find more words! 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