Japanese gardens also were strongly influenced by the Chinese philosophy of Daoism, and Amida Buddhism, imported from China in or around 552 A. D .. Daoist legends spoke of five mountainous islands inhabited by the Eight Immortals, who lived in perfect harmony with nature.

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.

Of the five temples, only the Temple of Hera, also known as " Temple E ", has been re-erected.

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.

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.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

I have chosen five contrasting pairs, ten men in all, and they are arranged in roughly chronological order.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

With five shots at the immediate command of the hunter's trigger finger, the gun and load are a deadly combination.

Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.

Out of many factors which might be cited, five are most important: 1.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

The numbers of successes on the five individual shots are, then, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1.

The totals for these five categories are not too uneven, namely 20, 15, 11, 16, 9 respectively.

If it were wholly random and unrelated, it would be 2.0, assuming the five classes were equal in n, which approximately they are.

If we have five problems whose solution we seek in relatively united fashion, then there are twice as many issues which, I judge, sharply divide us, intergroup relations practitioners and lay people.

The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.

In other words, the house-holders are encouraged to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations while the monks have to observe them very strictly.

In most amphibians, there are four digits on the fore foot and five on the hind foot, but no claws on either.

There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and hexadecimal computation.

Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.

Elections for the National assembly are to take place every five years, and the President is automatically the leader of the winning party or coalition.

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.

There are five recognized subtypes of motor neuron diseases.

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 ).