The five peaks of Mount Meru were taken to exhibit this arrangement, and Khmer temples was arranged accordingly in order to convey a symbolic identification with the sacred mountain.

As Bryan spoke his final sentence, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus, he placed his hands to his temples, fingers extended ; with the final words, he extended his arms to his sides straight out to his body and held that pose for about five seconds as if offering himself as sacrifice for the cause, as the audience watched in dead silence.

Many of the temples are in the form of five semicircular rooms connected at the centre.

The archaeological site contains five temples centered on an acropolis.

Although very small, Yamanouchi is famous for its traditional atmosphere and the presence, among others, of three of the five highest-ranking Rinzai Zen temples in Kamakura, the.

Generally the lamps used in temples are circular with places for five wicks.

Chinese palaces, temples, and coins have traditionally been inscribed in five scripts:

The remains of the cyclopean walls, comprising giant blocks, and the complex of the five temples are particularly interesting.

The Vedamata Gayathri devi, and Veda pitha sri. Virat Vishwakarma Temple is located at Virat nagar, in main road of Nellore. This temple is considered to be one among the biggest Gayathri devi temples of Andhra pradesh. The temple is attracting huge number of devotees and is said by devotees that, five times circumbenation of the temple sanctorium fulfills their wishes.

Based on Rakhine oral histories and inscriptions in certain temples, the history of the Rakhine region date back nearly five thousand years.

* Noreay Temples: five 7th century temples made of Sandstone, laterite and brick, 32 kilometres northeast of the town.

He one garden with five artificial hills covered with grass, symbolizing the five great ancient temples of Kyoto ; a modern rock garden, with vertical rocks, symbolizing Mount Horai ; a large " sea " of white gravel raked in a checkboard pattern ; and an intimate garden with swirling sand patterns.

The five hills symbolize the five great zen temples of Kyoto.

During the Edo Era, Nyakutakuji Temple was given ten koku of territory (" koku " is a denomination of land ) by the feudal lord of Matsumoto, so its perimeter was about 13 kilometers and it established five branch temples.

Nanzen-ji is not itself considered one of the " five great Zen temples of Kyoto "; however, it does play an important role in the " Five Mountain System " which was modified from Chinese roots.

is considered to be one of the so-called or " five great Zen temples of Kyoto ", along with,,, and.

The five legendary marble temples of Dilwara are a sacred pilgrimage place of the Jains.

In 1992, the Committee decided to expand the listing to include five other megalithic temples situated across the islands of Malta and Gozo.

The adjacent tank contains five small temples known as ‘ Panchvati ’.

The path of the journey consists of five temples which must be unsealed by Colette.

Tongdosa is one of five temples in Korea, known as Jeokmyeolbogung, which enshrine the relics of the Buddha that Jajang returned from China.

The five Daoist temples are the Temple of Emptiness, the Temple of Junkets, the Temple of the Nine Heavens, the Temple of the White Crane, and the Temple of the Yellow Dragon.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

Boats were indicated specifically by only one of the five towns known to tax boats.

Twenty-seven assessors stated that they were in favor of improved means for assessing movable personal property, and only five were opposed.

Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.

They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.

But where the core of NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, `` cornerstone '' of its foreign policy, but has announced that five nuclear submarines will eventually be at NATO's disposal in European waters.

Then Dick Hyde, submarine-ball hurler, entered the contest and only five batters needed to face him before there existed a 3-to-3 deadlock.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

The rest of the families together contain only about five hundred species.

The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the Hutchinson system of plant taxonomy when it contained only five families, of which only two are retained in the APG III classification.

However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.

It includes all land under temporary crops ( double-cropped areas are counted only once ), temporary meadows for mowing or market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow ( less than five years ).

She is also the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that " It ’ s not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B.

In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.

Playing 34 matches on tour — three of which were not first-class — including the five Tests, they remained unbeaten, winning 27 and drawing only 7.

Atma ( Soul ) merges into " Parmatma " or the greatest soul. According to Bhagwadgita an " Atma " or soul never dies, what dies is the body only made of five elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

Furthermore, to aid the conspiracy Maria had adopted Alexios as her son, though she was only five years older than he Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own " Alans " and her eunuchs, who had been instigated to do his by Isaac Komnenos.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.