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The modern Burmese language term kyaung (ကျောင်း) descends from the Old Burmese word kloṅ (က္လောင်). [4] The strong connection between religion and schooling is reflected by fact that the kyaung is the same word now used to refer to secular schools. [5]
Tradruk Temple (Tibetan: ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: khra-’brug dgon-pa, Lhasa dialect: [ʈʂʰaŋʈʂuk kø̃pa], referred to as Changzhu Monastery in Chinese) in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple.
Kirti Gompa was founded in 1472 by Rongpa Chenakpa, a disciple of Tsongkhapa. [2] It was established as a branch of Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Gompa (Nama Ge’erde Si) near the border with Gansu Province in 1693 but has outgrown its mother monastery.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
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There are images of Milarepa, Tsongkhapa, and Shri Devi, a protectress whose mule is said to have left a footprint in the stone when she visited Milarepa in a vision. [ 4 ] Restoration work within the cave and the monastery was undertaken by artists and craftsmen from Nepal [ 8 ] and was financed in the 1970s by the Chinese government .
Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers. If the Proud Boys are the U.S. far-right’s street brawlers, the Oath Keepers are the movement’s military vanguard, with Yale graduate, military veteran and ...