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2. 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]

3. Mani stone - Wikipedia

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   The term mani stone may also be used to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs (such as ashtamangala) are inscribed or painted. Mani stones are intentionally placed along the roadsides and rivers [ 1 ] or grouped together to form mounds, [ 1 ] cairns , [ 2 ] or sometimes long walls, as an offering to spirits of place or ...

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. Tibetan Buddhist architecture - Wikipedia

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   He built each wife a temple to hold each of their Buddha statues (later, the statues switched temples). Gampo changed Rasa ("land of the goat"), the name of the region, to Lhasa ("land of the god"). Jokhang: The Jokhang temple housed the Nepalese queen's statue of Akshobya Buddha. Now, this temple houses the gold statue of the crowned Buddha.

7. 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 ...