The " temple " in " temple name " refers to the " grand temple " ( 太廟 ), also called " great temple " ( 大廟 ) or " ancestral temple " ( 祖廟 ), where crown princes and other royalty gathered to worship their ancestors.

The ancestral tablets in the grand temple recorded the temple names of the rulers.

Another example is at Muggier, which was by at the base, and is even now high, and it is clear that both it and the Birs were built with diminishing stages, presenting a series of grand platforms, decreasing in length as they ascended, and leaving a comparatively small one at top for the temple cell.

James Paine's Shrubland Park was remodeled in ( 1849 – 54 ) with its Italianate tower, entrance porch, the lower hall with Corinthian columns and glass domes and the impressive formal gardens based on Italian Renaissance gardens, including a 70 foot high series of terraces linked by a grand flight of steps linking terraces, with an open temple structure at the top, originally there were cascades of water either side of the staircase, the main terrace is at the center of a string of gardens nearly a mile in length.

During the reign of Tiberius, Ostia built a grand municipal temple to Roma and Augustus.

The twenty-first verse says the following ; " For the salvation of his soul the King, after paying his obeisance at the little feet of Vamana Avatar ( the incarnation of Vishnu as a midget Brahmana ), went about constructing a wondrous temple for Vishnu Hari ( Shri Rama ) with marvelous pillars and structure of stone reaching the skies and culminating in a superb top with a massive sphere of gold and projecting shafts in the sky-a temple so grand that no other King in the History of the nation had ever built before.

Juno often had this function, as at the Latin town of Lanuvium and the Etruscan city of Veii, and was often housed in an especially grand temple on the arx ( citadel ) or other prominent or central location.

The third, and arguably the most important record, comes from the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, who in his Gesta Danorum described the war fought in 1168 by the Danish king Valdemar I against the Wends of Rügen, the conquest of their city at cape Arkona and the destruction of the grand temple of Svantevit that stood there.

The gardens were laid out with formal bedding, specimen trees and manicured parkland ; punts were put on the ( deadly damp ) river for the amusement of Baron Ferdinand's house-parties who would drive over, in summer, from Waddesdon for afternoon tea, and a guided tour which included the Egyptian spring at Hartwell, and a grand temple at nearby Sedrup.

He felt that to make an entry appear grand, the Roman temple front would be the most suitable style.

The Kelurak inscription ( 782 ) and Manjusrigrha inscription ( 792 ) mentioned about the construction of a grand prasada named Vajrasana Manjusrigrha ( house of Manjusri ) identified today as Sewu temple, located just 800 meters north of Prambanan Hindu temple complex.

As extended under Sulla, the sanctuary of Fortune came to occupy a series of five vast terraces, which, resting on gigantic masonry substructure and connected with each other by grand staircases, rose one above the other on the hill in the form of the side of a pyramid, crowned on the highest terrace by the round temple of Fortune.

The temple celebrates Ganesh Utsav in a grand Manner, where huge award winning sets are erected every year with beautiful decorations.

Subsequently, Indradyumna, the king of Somavamsa, had three wooden images made out of the log and established a grand temple for the images.

The temple has grand brahmotsavams ( big festival ) for Sri Parthasarathy swami during the Tamil month of Chittirai ( April – May ), on the same month Udayavar uthsavam is also celebrated.

After the morning seeveli, on Ekadasi there is a grand elephant procession to the Parthasarathi temple since it is regarded as Geethopadesam Day also.

* Annapoorna Devi Temple ( Tirwa ): About 18 km away from the main city of Kannauj, this grand temple is situated in village Tirwa.

After his power had reached a certain point, she killed him with a thought, shattering the grand temple and throwing his priests into the Mazes of her making.

A very complex, grand, incomprehensible state.

* Hearts of Iron III-( Paradox Interactive, 2009 )-a complex and realistic grand strategy wargame that allows the player to take control of almost any nation that existed or even plausibly could have existed during the period of 1936 – 1948, guiding it through World War II.

These very large and complex compositions have been regarded ever since as among the supreme works of the grand manner of the High Renaissance, and the " classic art " of the post-antique West.

The genus Rubus is a very complex one, particularly the blackberry / dewberry subgenus ( Rubus ), with polyploidy, hybridization, and facultative apomixis apparently all frequently occurring, making species classification of the great variation in the subgenus one of the grand challenges of systematic botany.

Construction began on a planned downtown theatre complex which had a grand opening on June 30, 2006, and renovation of the landmark Hotel Sterling was being pursued by CityVest, a nonprofit developer.

Contrasting with Intolerance ’ s grand story, set and length, Griffith charmed audiences by the delicacy with which Broken Blossoms handled such a complex subject.

Journalist John L. O ' Sullivan, an influential advocate for Jacksonian democracy and a complex character described by Julian Hawthorne as " always full of grand and world-embracing schemes ", wrote an article in 1839, which, while not using the term " Manifest Destiny ", did predict a " divine destiny " for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement " to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man ".

There are a few survivals of the grand Egyptian 16th century carpets, including one almost as good as new discovered in the attic of the Pitti Palace in Florence, whose complex patterns of octagon roundels and stars, in just a few colours, shimmer before the viewer.

His mature work combines the ornamental pomp of Paul Veronese with the lively complex schemes, the " grand manner " of Pietro da Cortona.

This is usually reserved for cases in which complex or grand mal seizures are produced by an epileptogenic focus on one side of the brain, causing an interhemispheric electrical storm.

Many instruments now have a complex action incorporating actual hammers in order to better simulate the touch of a grand piano.

The museum complex consists of two wings, the public and curatorial wings, surrounded by a series of plazas connected by a grand staircase.

The Samson Fountain and its massive pedestal had not yet been installed in the Sea Channel, and the channel itself was used as a grand marine entrance into the complex.

The site of his, the world ’ s first agricultural experimental station, is today a grand Alsatian grange and outbuilding complex in north-eastern France in urgent need of restoration ( see photo ).

The new Opry venue was to be the centerpiece of a grand entertainment complex at that location, which would come to include the theme park and a large hotel / convention center.

The grand opening of the new complex is slated for February 2005.

Both play at the grand sporting complex in Buldang-dong, which is also open to the public for running, soccer, ultimate, and field sports.

One of the highlights of a modern Carnatic music concert is the percussion solo ( thani avarthanam ), where the mridangam artist and other percussionists such as kanjira, morsing, and ghatam vidwans exchange various complex rhythmic patterns, culminating in a grand finale where the main artists resumes where he or she left off.

The company launched the K250 synthesizer / sampler in 1984: while limited by today's standards and quite expensive, it was considered to be the first really successful attempt to emulate the complex sound of a grand piano.

These five key areas support the INL mission to “ ensure the nation ’ s energy security with safe, competitive, and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security .” Through its grand challenge in resilient control systems, ICIS research is providing a holistic approach to aspects of design that have often been bolt-on, including human systems, security and modeling of complex interdependencies.

Following Émile Durkheim's call to analyze complex modern society sui generis, post-war structural functionalist sociologists such as Talcott Parsons seized upon these theories of systematic and hierarchical interaction among constituent components to attempt to generate grand unified sociological theories, such as the AGIL paradigm.

With land donated by Xu Guangqi's family and those acquired by other means, the Society of Jesus established a grand cathedral as well as an entire one square mile complex that covers most of present-day Xujiahui.

Yet further away from the tomb complex, lie Mughal-period monuments, Bada Bateshewala Mahal, the tomb of Muzaffar Husain Mirza, the grand nephew of Humayun, built 1603-4 on platform with five arches on each side, has its interior walls decorated with incised and painted plaster ; the Chote Bateshewala Mahal once an arcaded octagonal building with a domed ceiling and stone jaalis.

Today, the shopping and entertainment complex features three levels of shops and restaurants, a set of grand open air fountains, live theatres, movie theatres, an ice skating rink and overstreet walkways leading throughout the complex and to Kansas City's Union Station.