Local historian Hassan Ahmed Maniku counted as many as 59 islands with Buddhist archaeological sites in a provisional list he published in 1990.

Local Buddhist abbots of the various places he visited often would pay him money as well, for the small service of recording the history of their local monastery.

Local participants and sponsors use the occasion to enhance their social prestige, as is customary in traditional Buddhist folk festivals throughout Southeast Asia.

Local attractions include the Eunjin Mireuk, a large standing Buddhist sculpture of the Goryeo period and its accompanying temple, Gwanchoksa, as well as the Baekje Military Museum.

Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.

Local tradition says that this was the last Buddhist temple of the Maldives.

Local historians maintain that two important temples in Haa district, the Black Temple and the White Temple were built at the same time as Kyerchu Temple in Paro in the 7th century AD.

Local governments restrict the construction of Taoist temples and statues, and call for abandonment of practiced they deem to be " superstitious " or " feudal.

Local jobs can be seen and counted, while opportunities elsewhere are regarded as more hypothetical.

Local school districts are hard pressed financially and unenthusiastic about vocational training.

Local thickenings ( often called warts ) are common, such as those found on toads.

Local affiliates of the ACLU are active in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Local printers are also increasingly taking over the process of photofinishing as digital photo printers become commonplace.

Local congregations have far-reaching powers concerning " controversial " matters ( such as whether or not women are admitted as members of the congregation's consistory or admittance to holy communion ).

Local meetings of hierarchs have been called " pan-Orthodox ", but these have invariably been simply meetings of local hierarchs of whatever Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions are party to a specific local matter.

Local congregations ( branches, wards, and stakes ) have de jure boundaries by which members are allocated, and membership records are centralized.

Local bus services are provided by Emsworth & District, which operate services to Havant and Chichester.

Local bus services inside cities and towns are often tightly regulated by the councils.

The national championship winners from the Top-4 ranked nations receive automatic qualification, while the remaining two spots are made up by a team nominated by the Local Event organiser and the winner of the previous year's EuroFloorball Cup.

Local terms for the procedure include tahara in Egypt ; tahur in Sudan ; and bolokoli in Mali, which Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write are words synonymous with purification.

Local trains however are subsidised by the German states, which pay the operating companies to run these trains.

In the Local Group, the Milky Way and M31 ( the Andromeda Galaxy ) are gravitationally bound, and currently approaching each other at high speed.

* Local topocentric coordinates are azimuth ( direction angle within the plane of the horizon ) and elevation angle ( or zenith angle ) and distance.

Local preparations for use in otolaryngology often contain pharmacologic equivalents of adrenaline, while steroid and vitamin D creams are used extensively in dermatological practice.

Local autobahns are A 352 ( a short cut between A7 ( north ) and A2 ( west ), also known as the airport autobahn because it passes Hanover Airport ) and the A 37.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

The boundaries of the areas and the number of councillors assigned are fixed from time to time by order of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, following a report by the Local Government Commission, and based on population changes recorded in the census.

Also, some address ranges are considered special, such as link-local addresses for use on the local link only, Unique Local addresses ( ULA ) as described in RFC 4193, and solicited-node multicast addresses used in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

Local timber merchants are harvesting scarce species of rosewood trees from protected rainforests within Marojejy National Park and exporting the wood to China for the production of luxury furniture and musical instruments.

The inhabitants who are registered elect the Council every three years, as voters in the Local Councils ' Electoral Register.

Local councils are responsible for the general upkeep and embellishment of the locality, local wardens, and refuse collection, and carry out general administrative duties for the central government such as collection of government rents and funds, and answering government-related public inquiries.

Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

Local Serbian wine is highly regarded and popular in respective wine regions.

Forster's 1870 Act, bodies that were popular with Nonconformists and Radicals, replacing them with Local Education Authorities that would administer a state centred system of primary, secondary and technical schools.

Local German immigrant farmers referred to the settlement as Four Corners or High Five, a popular card name, until the post office opened in the early 1890s as Treynor, named after the recently deceased Council Bluffs postmaster.

Local bus lines were also a popular form of travel.

Local residents often subscribe to out-of-town papers as well ; the New York Times is popular among many.

The PC clone market did not want to pay royalties to IBM in order to use this new technology, and for desktop machines vendors of PC-compatibles stayed largely with the 16-bit AT bus, ( embraced and renamed as ISA to avoid IBM's " AT " trademark ) and manual configuration, although the VESA Local Bus was briefly popular for Intel ' 486 machines.

Local governors, or basqaqs, were responsible for levying taxes and dealing with popular discontent.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

Compared to many advertising-funded Independent Local Radio ( ILR ) stations, which often broadcast contemporary popular music, BBC nations ' radio stations offer a more " serious " alternative.

Derivatives include an uptempo version of Calypso music mixed with musical styles from the Indians in Trinidad and Tobago called Local ( Chutney ) into soca, and a hip-hop-influenced style called rapso both became popular in Trinidad and other islands.

Nearby inland are Sandown Levels, one of the few freshwater wetlands on the Isle of Wight, where Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a very popular spot for birdwatching.

The Local Government Act, Ordinance No. 52 ( 1935 ) governed the decency of swimming costumes and was in force between 1935 and 1961, and resulted in public controversy as the two-piece " bikini " became popular after World War II.

Local star Ray Michelsen became the band's singer after having sung with a handful of other popular bands on the local scene.

Local shows could often be popular and profitable, but concerns about product promotion led them to almost completely disappear by the mid-1970s.

Local festivities are very popular during the summer season in all kinds of localities ranging from villages to cities, as well as beach holidays from July to September.

Local white bands backed nationally popular black R & B artists during their tours, and performed on their own at fraternity parties and other college social events.

Local programming today is limited primarily to the station's popular newscasts.

Local Chinese restaurants, called in Peruvian Spanish chifas, serve Chinese food with significant Peruvian influence and are popular in Chinatown among native Peruvians as well.

Local folk songs which are called rgya-glu and balti ghazals are still quite popular and are performed enthusiastically at social gatherings.

Heart Sussex ( previously Southern FM, also operating as Heart Sussex for Crawley & Surrey in Crawley and Surrey ) is an Independent Local Radio station which is owned by Global Radio ( formerly GCap Media ) and plays commercial, chart-oriented popular music.

Local exposure to current trends in American jazz in the Twenties was moderated by Australian popular taste, which favoured the polished white style of American jazz ( dance ) orchestra music, particularly the symphonic jazz style typified by Paul Whiteman.