Kyoto's character was defined by the Imperial Court, the court nobles, its Buddhist temples and its history ; Osaka was the country's commercial center, dominated by the chōnin ( merchant class ).

The ancient Buddhist temple of Sensō-ji still stands in Asakusa, marking the center of an area of traditional Shitamachi culture.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country.

Palembang was a center for scholarly learning, and it was there the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim I Ching studied Sanskrit in 671 CE before departing for India.

The center grew and in 1982 he and his colleague Sister Chân Không founded Plum Village Buddhist Center ( Làng Mai ), a monastery and Practice Center in the Dordogne in the south of France .< ref name =" BBC ">

* Sarnath becomes a center of Buddhist arts in India.

Srivijaya was also a notable center of Vajrayana Buddhist learning and influence.

The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point.

* Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne

Mount Meru (), also called Sumeru i. e. the " Excellent Meru " and Mahameru i. e. " Great Meru ", is a sacred mountain in Jain cosmology, Hindu as well as Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

* Tenzin Gyatso Institute for Wisdom and Compassion a Buddhist retreat center operated by Rigpa.

Ejo started his Buddhist studies at Mount Hiei, the center of Tendai studies.

Nonetheless, no scholars have yet identified a major center of Buddhist learning in Persia which corresponds to the Bonpos ' land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring.

Though the city's exact location is not certain, it presently lies in the Munshiganj District of Bangladesh, and continues to be celebrated as an early center of Buddhist cultural, academic, and political life.

Upon educating the young Atiśa in the basic principles of Mahayana Buddhism, Jetari advised that he go to Nalanda, a Buddhist center for learning in northeastern India.

In 1967 he and Akong Rinpoche were invited by the Johnstone House Trust in Scotland to take over a meditation center on the departure of the western Theravadan monk named Anandabodhi, which then became Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West.

Establishes Tail of the Tiger, a Buddhist meditation and study center in Vermont, now known as Karmê Chöling.

In the period 850-1025 A. D., Palembang prospered as a centre of trade between the East and West and as a center of Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.

It was a great center of Buddhist learning and very prosperous during the 3rd century AD.

During his travels he visited holy sites, learned the lore of his faith, and studied with many famous Buddhist masters, especially at the famous center of Buddhist learning at Nālanda University.

While a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago ( 1945 – 57 ), Rogers helped to establish a counseling center connected with the university and there conducted studies to determine the effectiveness of his methods.

The first center for gender studies was opened within a newly formed Institute for the Socio − Economic Study of Human Population.

* Level II-2: Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies, preferably from more than one center or research group.

Scientist from Zurich studies show that the hormone oxytocin related to stress and sex reduces activity in your brain fear center

Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement.

Kuniyoshi Sakai proposed, based on several neuroimaging studies, that there may be a " grammar center ", where language is primarily processed in the left lateral premotor cortex ( located near the pre central sulcus and the inferior frontal sulcus ).

In 2009, however, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies.

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a lifelong American Civil War enthusiast, in 1995 Moore donated funds to acquire a historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College ( now Shepherd University ) to be used as a center for Civil War studies.

The center of these studies was Bologna.

Benford's work in physics at the University of California Irvine has focussed on theoretical and experimental plasma physics, including studies of extremely strong turbulence, particularly in astrophysical contexts, and studies of magnetic structures from the galactic center to large scale galactic jets.

* National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center: NARAC is a national support and resource center for planning, real-time assessment, emergency response, and detailed studies of incidents involving a wide variety of hazards, including nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, and natural atmospheric emissions.

Although recent studies suggest that the Quirinal hill was very important in ancient times, the first hill to be inhabited seems to have been the Palatine ( therefore confirming the legend ), which is also at the center of ancient Rome.

Some business schools center their teaching around the use of case studies ( i. e. the case method ).

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS or JTSA ) is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.

Gimbutas's conclusions that Neolithic sites in Lithuania and across Europe pointed to long-term stable egalitarian societies with women at the center materially and spiritually earned a mixed reception by other scholars, but became a keystone of the matriarchal studies movement and the Goddess movement.

These additions made room for the world studies program in the old music building, a new student residence in the old health center, an expansion of the outdoor program into the old exercise room, and athletic space in the old dance studio.

The center ’ s recent signature studies include research with participants in Taglit-Birthright Israel, investigations of synagogue transformation, and analyses of Jewish summer camping.

The Canons were famous for their dedication to scholarly pursuits, and sent the youth to their major center of studies, the Abbey of the Holy Cross in Coimbra.

Historians John Boswell and Martin Duberman made Yale University a notable center of lesbian and gay studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Each published several books on gay history ; Boswell held three biennial conferences on the subject at the university, and Duberman sought to establish a center for lesbian and gay studies there in 1985.

In 1997, writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer offered his alma mater Yale $ 4 million ( and his personal papers ) to endow a permanent, tenured professorship in gay studies, and possibly build a gay and lesbian student center.

From 1480 to 1482, he continued his studies at the University of Padua, a major center of Aristotelianism in Italy.

His palazzo in Rome was a virtual Academy for the studies of new humanistic learning, a center for learned Greeks and Greek refugees, whom he supported by commissioning transcripts of Greek manuscripts and translations into Latin that made Greek scholarship available to Western Europeans.