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2. Tibetan Buddhist architecture - Wikipedia

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   Small temples called chorten are found everywhere in Tibet. The design can vary, from roundish walls to squarish, four-sided walls. Some of these temples have relics of monks or other precious items. They are decorated with different depictions of the elements and nirvana symbolizing when the Buddha reached enlightenment.

3. Tabo Monastery - Wikipedia

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   Tabo Monastery (or Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery [1]) is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India.It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape [2] by the Tibetan Buddhist lotsawa (translator) Rinchen Zangpo (Mahauru Ramabhadra), on behalf of the king of western Himalayan Kingdom of Guge, Yeshe-Ö. [2]

4. Hanging craft - Wikipedia

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   Decorative hangings A wall hanging craft is a decoration, an amulet, a religious or a symbolic object that is hung from the ceiling or another structure. The sculptor Alexander Calder invented the mobiles, popular in the nursery, to give infants something to entertain them and give them external visual stimulation. [ 1 ]

5. Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings - Wikipedia

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   Detail wall painting, Ladakh Detail of a wall painting in a Buddhist temple in Ladakh/India. The support for wall paintings is made of earthen plaster, usually consisting of more than one layer of earthen plaster, in which the last layer is rendered as smoothly as possible. The support was covered by a smoothened ground, generally in white.

6. Hindu temple - Wikipedia

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   The ancient texts on Hindu temple design, the Vāstu-puruṣa-mandala and Vastu Śāstras, do not limit themselves to the design of a Hindu temple. [59] They describe the temple as a holistic part of its community, and lay out various principles and a diversity of alternate designs for home, village and city layout along with the temple ...

7. Hindu architecture - Wikipedia

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   The architecture of a Hindu temple in Sunak, Gujarat. Indian Architecture also known as "Hindu Architecture " and "Budhist Architecture"is the traditional system of Indian architecture for structures such as temples, monasteries, statues, homes, market places, gardens and town planning as described in Hindu texts.