Gaudí's multicolored mosaic salamander, popularly known as " el drac " ( the dragon ), at the main entrance, prior to vandalism early in 2007

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Benny Carter became Fletcher's main arranger in the early 30's, moving on become as famous for his arranging expertise as his musicianship.

The mausoleums of the early Ottoman sultans are located in Bursa and the numerous edifices built throughout the Ottoman period constitute the city's main landmarks.

During the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes ( main and reserve ), and deployment components.

In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

An early computer might use a hand-wired CPU of vacuum tubes, a magnetic drum for main memory, and a punch tape and printer for reading and writing data.

These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.

In the early 1980s, cheerleading squads not associated with a schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge.

The two main written sources for early West Saxon history are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List.

The compact nature of such instruction sets results in smaller program sizes and fewer ( slow ) main memory accesses, which at the time ( early 1960s and onwards ) resulted in a tremendous savings on the cost of computer memory and disc storage, as well as faster execution.

A 1964 ad expressed the main advantage of the PDP-5, " Now you can own the PDP-5 computer for what a core memory alone used to cost: $ 27, 000 " 116 PDP-5s were produced until the lines were shut down in early 1967.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early modern Games, such as fundraising stamps for the 1896 games and the main posters for the 1920 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

Diocletian's reforms shifted the governors ' main function to that of the presiding official in the lower courts: whereas in the early Empire military and judicial functions were the function of governor, and procurators had supervised taxation ; under the new system vicarii and governors were responsible for justice and taxation, and a new class of duces (" dukes "), acting independently of the civil service, had military command.

His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics ( especially geometry ) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.

The great flood of the main Nile usually occurred in Egypt during August, September, and October, but it sometimes began as early as June at Aswan and often did not completely wane until January.

The main difference between the early EEC and the EFTA was the absence of a common external customs tariff, and therefore each EFTA member was free to establish individual customs duties against trade with non EFTA countries.

Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious ; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

During the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onwards and in an attempt to eradicate Buddhism Nichiren-temples were forced, just like any other Buddhist school, to focus on funeral and memorial services as their main activity.

To " turn the wheel of dharma " ( Zhuan Falun ) means to preach the Buddhist doctrine, and is the title of Falun Gong's main text.

Dirck Vorenkamp, a professor of religious studies, argued in his paper " B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time " that the Zen Buddhist teacher Dōgen presented views on time that contained all the main elements of McTaggart's B-series view of time ( which denies any objective present ), although he noted that some of Dōgen reasoning also contained A-Series notions, which Vorenkamp argued may indicated some inconsistency in Dōgen's thinking.

* — highlights the main stages of Yogic and Buddhist practice, comparing Yoga-sutra system by Patanjali and the Eightfold Noble Path from Buddhist tradition.

* Journey to the West by Wu Cheng ' en, published in the 1590s ; a fictionalized account of the pilgrimage of Xuanzang to India to obtain Buddhist religious texts in which the main character encounters ghosts, monsters, and demons, as well as the Flaming Mountains

Inside, there are Buddhist Kwun Yum chapels next to the main altar.

Among the many Buddhist lineages he studied, practiced and transmitted the three main lineages were the Lineage of the Profound Action transmitted by Maitreya / Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, the Lineage of Profound View transmitted by Manjushri / Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, and the Lineage of Profound Experience transmitted by Vajradhara / Tilopa, Naropa.

The majority of Shan are Theravada Buddhists, and the Shan constitute one of the four main Buddhist ethnic groups in Burma ; the others are the Bamar, the Mon and the Rakhine.

This tree is a frequent destination for pilgrims, being the most important of the four main Buddhist pilgrimage sites.

Due to the wide proliferation of Buddhist texts available in Chinese and the large number of foreign monks who came to teach Buddhism in China, much like new branches growing from a main tree trunk, various specific focus traditions emerged.

in Japanese ), is usually the main hall of a Buddhist temple, e. g. in Hōryū-ji, Nara Prefecture

The monk Xuanzang ( also referred to in the story as Tang Sanzang, meaning " Tang Tripitaka Master ", with Tang referring to the Tang Dynasty and Sanzang referring to the Tripitaka, the main categories of texts in the Buddhist canon which is also used as an honorific for some Buddhist monks ) is a Buddhist monk who had renounced his family to become a monk from childhood.

A full-sized Zen Buddhist temple will typically have at least one zen-dō as well as a (" main hall ", but sometimes translated as " Buddha hall "), which is used for ceremonial purposes, plus a variety of other buildings with different functions.

The main stupa is only the crown part of the monument, while the base is pyramidal structure elaborate with galleries adorned with bas relief of scenes derived from Buddhist text depicted the life of Siddharta Gautama.

At Tō-ji, in addition to the main hall ( kondō ) and some minor buildings on the site, Kūkai added the lecture hall in 825 which was specifically designed along Shingon Buddhist principles, which included the making of 14 Buddha images.

According to some historical accounts, Indian Buddhist monk Bodhidharma was one of the main founders of the Shaolin Kungfu.

From the 1960s onward, Buddhism has grown considerably, through the formation of independent lay associations ( that is, not funded or affiliated to the main orders ), with many focused on youths, particularly to propagate and evangelize Buddhist teachings, fellowship and spiritual development, based on the Protestant model.

All four of the main Tibetan Buddhist schools became well known.

4th c .) was an Indian Buddhist monk, and along with his half-brother Asanga, one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school.