number of welfare programmes for his people. Construction of tanks‚ dharmasalas‚ roads and planting of trees were taken up. Ashoka was a great builder. He built stupas‚ viharas and saw that the Buddhist principles were carved on rocks. They are called ’edicts’. We find Ashoka’s stupas and pillars in many parts of India. The Sarnath Stupa is the most famous one.The Ashoka Dharma
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India’s languages‚ religions‚ dance‚ music‚ architecture‚ food and customs differ from place to place within the country‚ but nevertheless possess a commonality. India is the only country in the world to have so many religions and beliefs. The culture of India is an amalgamation of these diverse sub-cultures spread all over the Indian subcontinent and traditions that are several millennia old Religions and spirituality India is the birth place of Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Jainism and Sikhism‚ collectively
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rituals‚ music‚ and dance. Because Hindu architectural styles are expressions of faith‚ adopting new forms would be a denial of the entire past. The supreme sacred monument of Buddhism is the stupa‚ whose basic form is a solid dome crowned by a parasol. Stupas were initially burial mounds for relics. The stupa form‚ with its vertical axis representing the axis mundi‚ or world axis‚ has cosmic implications. The parasol is one of the kingly symbols associated with the Buddha‚ who had renounced his former
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Anakapalle city is a revenue Division part of Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh‚ a state in India. The Anakapalle town is famous for its jaggery market. Its market is ranked second in India in terms of jaggery imports/exports.[1] Anakapalle is also a very busy and famous business center in this region. Many people from the rural areas around the town cites Anakapalle as their destination for their shopping and medical needs. 20% of Anakapalli people
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Early next morning a disturbed Saanchi made an appointment to meet Aurafi the same evening. Aurafi lived in a quaint little bungalow in the bylanes of Bandra. Her assistant a young girl led Saanchi into a small dimly lit room. Aurafi sat cross-legged on a high chair‚ a table in front of her‚ with a candle and her tarot cards on it. The aroma of heated oil and scented candles suffused the room‚ creating a soothing and relaxed ambience. Even though she was dressed casually in a white kurta and a pair
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Introduction Built by the Khmers between 802 and 1220 AD‚ the ancient temples of Angkor Wat exist as the remaining relics of a historically and religiously rich city. While many other historical and religious structures in Cambodia have disappeared due in part from being constructed out of vulnerable materials like wood‚ Angkor Wat still remains as a symbol of the divinity of its former kings‚ as well as for the palace itself. Likewise‚ Indonesia’s Borodubur temples exist as the single remaining
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or scattered at sea. Cultural Landscape Pagodas are the principle form of Buddhist architecture‚ which are used as religious multistory Buddhist towers‚ used as a memorial or shrine. Cultural Landscape Stupas were the most important place among all the earliest Buddhist sculptures. A Stupa is a domeshaped monument‚ used to house Buddhists’ artifacts or to commemorate significant facts of Buddhism. Cultural Landscape The Buddhist temples and monasteries‚ found in every Buddhist country
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of artwork. All things considered‚ I found a new fondness for the elements involved to construct such astounding pieces of artwork. Originating from India‚ in the 10th or 11th centuries a Stupas‚ a small‚ black‚ and intricately detailed‚ spiritual ern‚ holds the ashes of the deceased cloistral monks. The stupas’ dome represents both Buddhas‚ Shakyamuni and Vairochana’s astral presence.
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Introduction: Culture is the set of patterns of human activity within a society or social group and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Customs‚ laws‚ popular styles‚ social standards‚ and traditions are all examples of cultural elements. The term culture refers to a state of intellectual development . The social and political forces that influence the growth of a human being are defined as culture. Culture is a total way of life shared by a people in a society.
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practices. Other religions are in the minority including Islam and Christianity and represent a combined total of less than 2% of the population. Theravada Buddhism is central to Lao cultural identity. The national symbol of Laos is the That Luang stupa‚ a stupa with a pyramidal base capped by the representation of a closed lotus blossom which was built to protect relics of the Buddha. Traditionally in Laos males would become novice monks at some point in their lives‚ giving them the opportunity to gain
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