Temples of Books
Temples of Books

Author: gestalten

Publisher: Gestalten

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9783967040241

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In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest technology connects visitors with vast amounts of knowledge. Libraries are changing, but, as places that are fundamentally free and open to all, they're also staying the same. Libraries of the World explores the most stunning examples, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth.

Temples, Tithes, and Taxes
Temples, Tithes, and Taxes

Author: Marty E. Stevens

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0801047773

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Introductory matters -- Temple construction -- Temple personnel -- Temple income -- Temple expenses -- Temple as "bank" -- Concluding matters.

Sacred Walls
Sacred Walls

Author: Gerald E. Hansen

Publisher: Covenant Communications

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781598117721

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This stunning photo essay examines the main symbolic motifs of several LDS temples, associating these motifs with sermons or visions in the Book of Mormon.

Explore with Monitor
Explore with Monitor

Author: Harvey Grady

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0595474845

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Explore life's greatest mysteries as Monitor addresses the questions we most want answered. Who are we? What is our place in the universe? How do we connect with Soul? What distracts us from realizing our Divinity? How can we work with our Subconscious Selves to achieve harmony in our subconscious mind and attain clear, reliable communication with our High Self and Soul.

Mountain Temples & Temple Mountains
Mountain Temples & Temple Mountains

Author: Nachiket Chanchani

Publisher: Global South Asia

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780295744513

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From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. Nachiket Chanchani?s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range?s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains

What's What in a Wat
What's What in a Wat

Author: Carol Stratton

Publisher: Silkworm Books

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1627767088

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As you walk through a Thai temple, a host of unfamiliar objects, shapes, and patterns tug at you from every direction. This handy and lucid guidebook will help you distinguish what is what. It takes you through a representative Thai Buddhist temple, guiding you from structure to structure and element to element, explaining the function and purpose of each, and the symbolism behind the forms. A Thai wat can be a place of bewildering beauty, but this illustrated companion will help you focus your eye and identify what you see. Tourists and residents, novices and scholars will all gain a clearer sense of what a wat is and the role it plays today in the lives of Thai people. Highlights - Detailed guide to Thai temple compounds - Definitions and explanations of architectural elements and structures - Richly illustrated with examples - Presents the temple in the context of Thai society - Author is an art historian specializing in Thai Buddhist art

Presidential Temples
Presidential Temples

Author: Benjamin Hufbauer

Publisher: CultureAmerica

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.

Seeing Spiritual India
Seeing Spiritual India

Author: Stephen Knapp

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-05-29

Total Pages: 879

ISBN-13: 0595614523

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This book is for anyone who wants to know of the many holy sites that you can visit while traveling within India, how to reach them, and what is the history and significance of these most spiritual of sacred sites, temples, and festivals. It also provides a deeper understanding of the mysteries and spiritual traditions of India. This book includes: Descriptions of the temples and their architecture, and what you will see at each place. Explanations of holy places of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, and Muslims. The spiritual benefits a person acquires by visiting them. Convenient itineraries to take to see the most of each area of India, which is divided into East, Central, South, North, West, the Far Northeast, and Nepal. Packing list suggestions and how to prepare for your trip, and problems to avoid. How to get the best experience you can from your visit to India. How the spiritual side of India can positively change you forever. This book goes beyond the usual descriptions of the typical tourist attractions and opens up the spiritual venue waiting to be revealed for a far deeper experience on every level.